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单词 guava
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guavan.

Brit. /ˈɡwɑːvə/, U.S. /ˈɡwɑvə/
Forms: 1500s ? guannaba, 1500s–1600s guiava, 1500s, 1700s guaiava, 1600s goyave, guavar, guavee, guaver, guayava, guayavo, guiave, guiavo, guayva, gwave, 1700s goava, gojavu, goyava, goyavier, guaba, guavo, guayabo, guyava, gwavah, (1800s gauva), 1600s– guava.
Etymology: < Spanish guayaba, -abo, presumably < some South American Indian or West Indian name.
1.
a. A tree of the myrtaceous genus Psidium of tropical America, esp. P. Guayava (now naturalized in many tropical countries), which yields a fruit of an acid flavour, used to make jelly, etc.mountain guava, red guava, white guava, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of tropical America > other American fruit-plants
guava1555
anchovy pear1657
river pear1696
sour-sop tree1696
monkey apple1750
stopper-berry tree1750
sour-sop1753
chocho1756
sweet plum1796
pequi1819
Spanish plum1823
jaboticaba1824
christophene1830
Quito orange1846
pepino1850
mountain mango1861
chayote1884
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
choko1902
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. ix. f. 81v They noorysshe a tree which they caule Guaiaua [printed Guaiana], that beareth a frute much resemblynge the kynde of citrons which are commonly cauled limones, of taste sumwhat sharpe myxt with swetenes.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxiv. 277 The Guayavos be other trees which commonly carry an ill fruite.
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 12 Nature hath stor'd it..with Oranges, Lymes..Guavars.
1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima iii. 209 There as those of the Caribbee Islands, as Ananas, Guayavas.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 239 The Mountain Guava. This is one of the largest trees in the woods of Jamaica.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 48 Besides these trees, here are also the tamarind, the medlar, the sapote, the papayo, the guayabo,..and several others.
1859 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 33 Musas, Granadillas, Guavas, or other tropical plants bearing fruit, should be watered occasionally with manure water.
b. black guava n. now rare a round, dark fruit resembling a guava, borne by a tropical South American tree, Guettarda argentea (family Rubiaceae); (also) the tree itself, yielding a grey wood used in construction (also called silver-wood).
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1835 T. Shepherd Lect. Hort. New S. Wales iv. 64 The black guava is esteemed a superior fruit to the other two.
1917 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 44 523 The so-called black guava is Guettarda argentea Lam., a rubiaceous Jamaican tree.
2009 L. Vigden & A. Skolnick Nicaragua (Lonely Planet) (ed. 2) 224/1 Coffee planted beneath black guava trees.
2. The fruit of the guava-tree.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun]
tamarind1539
zizypha1546
guava1555
tuna1555
turpentine1562
mango1582
mammee1587
durian1588
lychee1588
sapota1589
fritter1591
mangosteen1598
custard apple1648
longan1655
mammee sapota1657
mammee apple1683
breadfruit1697
coco-plum1699
rambutan1707
pawpaw1709
locust bean1731
sapodilla1750
cherimoya1758
wild lime1767
Otaheite apple1777
narra1779
langsat1783
rose apple1790
cinnamon apple1796
sapota plum1797
bhindi1809
salak1820
gingerbread plum1824
geebung1827
loquat1829
sapodilla plum1830
sage-apple1832
kangaroo-apple1834
karaka-fruit1834
quandong1836
mombin1837
terap1839
zapote1842
tamarind plum1846
prairie pea1848
Barbados-cherry1858
kei-apple1859
Natal plum1859
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
Sierra Leone peach1866
Turkey fig1866
marula1877
scarlet banana1885
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
pear apple1898
ume1918
pepino1922
Chinese gooseberry1925
num-num1926
acerola1954
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > other tropical or exotic fruits
tamarind1539
guava1555
genipat1568
jack1582
genipap1613
custard apple1648
star apple1693
sweet-sop1696
breadfruit1697
sugar-apple1739
sweet-apple1760
guarri1789
ackee1792
marmalade-box1796
five-corner1826
jakkalsbessie1854
Molucca berry1861
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
vegetable egg1866
Jew plum1880
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ix. f. 45 The fruite cauled Guannaba, vnknowen vnto vs, and sumwhat lyke vnto a quynse.
1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes iii. f. 90v They brought mee from the firme lande the seede of the fruite..whiche thei call Guaiauas.
1591 J. Hortop Trauailes Eng. Man 20 Feeding on nothing but roots, and Guiauos, a fruite like figges.
1626 P. Nichols Sir F. Drake Revived (1628) 50 Sundry sorts of fruits..Mammeas, Guyauas [etc.].
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 71 The Gnaver [Errata: Guaver] growes on a Tree, bodied and leav'd like a Cherry-tree..the fruit of the bignesse of a small Limon, and neer that colour.
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 61 The Goyave is somewhat bigger than a Nut; Its Pulp is red, very stony, and of the Taste of a Peach.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Goyavier, a sort of Fruit growing in the West-Indies.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xvi. 4 There are two species of guava; that which is the sweetest has the smallest quantity of seeds.
1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 58 Guavas are only eatable when preserved or in jellies.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
guava-bush n.
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1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 101 The psidium pomiferum, or guava bush.
guava-fruit n.
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1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World viii. 222 The Guava Fruit grows on a hard scrubbed Shrub.
guava-jelly n.
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1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lv. 501 Cayenne pepper, hot pickles, guava jelly, and colonial produce.
guava-plantation n.
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1835 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 453/1 A narrow bridle-path..led us through a guava plantation.
guava-tree n.
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1630 J. Smith True Trav. xxvi. 56 Gwane [sic] trees beare a fruit so bigge as a Peare, good and wholsome.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. iv. 107 The N.W. part of it is full of Guaver Trees, of the greatest variety.
1819 T. E. Bowdich Mission to Ashantee i. ii. 15 Richly varied with palm, banana, plantain, and guava trees.
C2.
guava-apple n. = 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun]
tamarind1539
zizypha1546
guava1555
tuna1555
turpentine1562
mango1582
mammee1587
durian1588
lychee1588
sapota1589
fritter1591
mangosteen1598
custard apple1648
longan1655
mammee sapota1657
mammee apple1683
breadfruit1697
coco-plum1699
rambutan1707
pawpaw1709
locust bean1731
sapodilla1750
cherimoya1758
wild lime1767
Otaheite apple1777
narra1779
langsat1783
rose apple1790
cinnamon apple1796
sapota plum1797
bhindi1809
salak1820
gingerbread plum1824
geebung1827
loquat1829
sapodilla plum1830
sage-apple1832
kangaroo-apple1834
karaka-fruit1834
quandong1836
mombin1837
terap1839
zapote1842
tamarind plum1846
prairie pea1848
Barbados-cherry1858
kei-apple1859
Natal plum1859
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
Sierra Leone peach1866
Turkey fig1866
marula1877
scarlet banana1885
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
pear apple1898
ume1918
pepino1922
Chinese gooseberry1925
num-num1926
acerola1954
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > other tropical or exotic fruits
tamarind1539
guava1555
genipat1568
jack1582
genipap1613
custard apple1648
star apple1693
sweet-sop1696
breadfruit1697
sugar-apple1739
sweet-apple1760
guarri1789
ackee1792
marmalade-box1796
five-corner1826
jakkalsbessie1854
Molucca berry1861
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
vegetable egg1866
Jew plum1880
1866 M. B. Clarke Mosses from Rolling Stone 120 Where the guava-apple ripens.
guavafly-catcher n. Turdus analis (Cassell, 1884).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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