Definition of Lucumas

1. Noun. (plural of lucuma) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of lúcuma) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lucumas

1. lucuma [n] - See also: lucuma

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucumas

lucubrates
lucubrating
lucubration
lucubrations
lucubrator
lucubrators
lucubratory
lucule
luculent
luculently
lucules
lucullan
lucullite
lucullites
lucuma
lucumas (current term)
lucumo
lucumos
lud
luddenite
lude
luderick
ludericks
ludes
ludibrious
ludibund
ludic
ludicrosities
ludicrosity
ludicrous

Literary usage of Lucumas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Progress of America, from the Discovery by Columbus to the Year 1846 by John Macgregor (1847)
"lucumas, paltas, and the fruits of the previous month. "November and December.—During these two months there is a great demand for sweet and sour lemons, ..."

2. Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic: Crossing the Andes in by Henry Lister Maw (1829)
"lucumas resembles a green peach, is yellow under the skin, and sweet, but insipid. Peaches are abundant, and of various qualities, some large and some small ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"... gourds; and among the fruits, chiri- moyas, lucumas and pepinos. The narcotic coca, from which cocaine is now prepared, was also grown. ..."

4. Popular Science Monthly (1902)
"... and lucumas afford refreshing acids, beverages, relishes or salads, but do not furnish substantial food like the banana. Contrary to the opinion of De ..."

5. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1813)
"... with a very fine purple ; the other fruit is that which they call lucumas, and is a fruit, as I remember, I have feen in Peru : it is a very ..."

6. Three Years in the Pacific: Including Notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger (1834)
"... bananas, a variety of melons, strawberries, which grow very large, lucumas, tunos, figs (two crops), paltas, besides apples, peaches, pears, &c. ..."

7. Protestant Missions in South America by Harlan Page Beach (1908)
"All the semi-tropical fruits, oranges, lemons, figs, cherimoyas, lucumas and other native fruits, as well as apples, peaches, pears, apricots, ..."

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