sweet-sopn.
The sweet fruit of a tree or shrub, Anona squamosa, allied to the sour-sop n., extensively cultivated in tropical countries. Also the tree or shrub itself. (Cf. sugar-apple n. at sugar n. Compounds 3c.)
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1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 205 Anona, foliis odoratis minoribus, fructu conoide squamoso parvo dulci... Sweet-sop. In pratis & agris campestribus ubique spontanea reperitur.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 256 The Sweet-sop, or Sugar Apple Tree.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 54/1 The sweet-sop..is often only a small bush,..it bears a greenish fruit covered with scales, and having the appearance of a young pine cone.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 49 The sweet sop—a passable fruit, or rather congeries of fruits, looking like a green and purple strawberry, of the bigness of an orange.
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