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sour-sop Bot.
Also sour sop, soursop.
[f. sour a. + sop n.1]
1. The fruit of the West Indian tree, Anona muricata.
1667Phil. Trans. II. 501 The Sower-sop, a pleasant fruit there, hath a flower with three leaves. 1683Tryon Way to Health 570 Sweet Oranges and Lemmons, Plantans, Coco-Nuts, Sower-Sops, &c. 1703W. Dampier Voy. III. i. 67 The Sour-sop (as we call it) is a large Fruit as big as a Man's Head,..and of a green Colour. 1740New Hist. Jamaica 51 Fruits grow in great Plenty,..Mamies, sour Sops, Papas,..and several Kind of Berries. c1825J. Choyce Log Jack Tar (1891) 22 We..got plenty and abundance of fruit, such as oranges, limes,..pears, soursops, &c. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §745 The Custard-apples, Sweetsops, and Soursops, of the East and West Indies, are furnished by various species of Anona. 1871Kingsley At Last ii, It is the cousin of the prickly sour-sop.
2. The tree bearing this fruit.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. App., Soure-sop, or Sowre-sop, in botany, a distinct genus of plants, called by botanists guanabanus and anona. 1764Grainger Sugar Cane i. 598 A neighbouring dell, (Which nature to the Soursop had resign'd). 1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. (ed. 2) §6732 The following are some of the most remarkable of the economical tropical plants... Sour-sop (Annona muricata). 1880Bessey Botany 561 A. squamosa, Sweet Sop, and A. muricata, Sour sop,..produce edible fruits.
3. = soursob.
1885Garden & Field (Adelaide) Aug. 29/3 ‘Amateur’ wants to know a remedy for ‘soursops’, and if gas lime would do. Ibid. Sept. 41/1 Now there's a fellow who wants {pstlg}500 to tell farmers how to kill the Soursops or oxalis. 1930A. J. Ewart Flora of Victoria 687 O[xalis] cernua..Soursop. A perennial with a brown bulb and a tapering root... A troublesome weed, native to South Africa, originally a garden escape.
4. attrib., as sour-sop bird, sour-sop tree.
1696Sloane Catal. Plantarum Jamaica 204 The Sowre⁓sop Tree. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 255 The Soursop Tree. This..is one of the most common plants in every Savanna. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 54/2 The following spirited sketch..of the appearance of the sour sop tree. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict. s.v., Sour-sop bird,..tanager (Calliste versicolor). |