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Definition of Pineapple guava
1. Noun. Dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves.
Definition of Pineapple guava
1. Noun. feijoa ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pineapple Guava
Literary usage of Pineapple guava
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"In contrast to most of the other fleabane.s, they retain their color in drying
and make beautiful herbarium specimens. THE pineapple guava BY VAUGHAN ..."
2. Report by Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, John Minton Westgate (1907)
"This new fruit, commonly known as the pineapple-guava or feijoa, is now attracting
... These characteristics have given rise to the name pineapple-guava. ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The "pineapple guava," of California, is Feijoa Sellowiana, a South American
myrtaceous fruit not properly called a guava, perhaps, but so closely ..."
4. Our Island Empire: A Hand-book of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the by Charles Morris (1899)
"... tobacco, cotton, wheat, maize, potato, cacao, grape, orange, citron, melon,
fig, pineapple, guava, tamarind, and such garden vegetables as the cucumber, ..."
5. The Principles of Fruit-growing, with Applications to Practice by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"SUBCLASS 6. Myrtaceous fruits. Guava, Psidium Guajava, and others. Feijoa,
pineapple guava, Feijoa Sellowiana. ..."
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