soursops

Noun

soursop (plural soursops)

1. A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
2. The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.
   • For a plant whose preferred growing region is the temperate zone of North America, the pawpaw is an uncannily exotic-tasting delicacy, a far-flung cousin of the tropical soursop, or guanábana.2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN