an evergreen myrtaceous shrub, Feijoa sellowiana, of South America
2.
the fruit of this shrub
Word origin
C19: from New Latin, named after J. da Silva Feijo, 19th-century Spanish botanist
Examples of 'feijoa' in a sentence
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Some studies have been conducted with feijoa regarding production and marketing.
Rodríguez C. Luis Felipe, Bermúdez Lilia Teresa 1996, 'Perfil y caracterización de la comercialización y consumo de Feijoa en Boyacá Characterizationof marketing and consumption patterns of Feijoa sellowiana in Boyaca', Agronomía Colombianahttp://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/agrocol/article/view/21466. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The strongest anti-inflammatory effects were seen for feijoa and blackberry.
Noha Ahmed Nasef, Sunali Mehta, Pamela Murray, Gareth Marlow, Lynnette R. Ferguson 2014, 'Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Fruit Fractions in Vitro, Mediated through Toll-LikeReceptor 4 and 2 in the Context of Inflammatory Bowel Disease', Nutrientshttp://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/6/11/5265. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The highest parasitism rate was in feijoa (21.40%) and the lowest in yellow strawberry guava (2.81%).
Diogo Ricardo Pereira Rêgo, Simone Jahnke, Luiza Redaelli, Naihana Schaffer 2013, 'Variação na infestação de mosca-das-frutas (Diptera: Tephritidae) e parasitismo emdiferentes fases de frutificação em mirtaceas nativas no Rio Grande do Sul', EntomoBrasilishttp://www.periodico.ebras.bio.br/ojs/index.php/ebras/article/view/ebrasilis.v6i2.259. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The largest infestation rate of fruit fly occurred in guava (89.5%) and the lowest in feijoa (67%).
Diogo Ricardo Pereira Rêgo, Simone Jahnke, Luiza Redaelli, Naihana Schaffer 2013, 'Variação na infestação de mosca-das-frutas (Diptera: Tephritidae) e parasitismo emdiferentes fases de frutificação em mirtaceas nativas no Rio Grande do Sul', EntomoBrasilishttp://www.periodico.ebras.bio.br/ojs/index.php/ebras/article/view/ebrasilis.v6i2.259. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Feijoa has been increasingly studied in the recent decade, while investigations into its bioactivities including anti-inflammatory activity are lacking.
Yaoyao Peng, Karen Suzanne Bishop, Lynnette Robin Ferguson, Siew Young Quek 2018, 'Screening of Cytotoxicity and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Feijoa Extracts UsingGenetically Modified Cell Models Targeting TLR2, TLR4 and NOD2 Pathways, and the Implicationfor Inflammatory Bowel Disease', Nutrientshttp://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/10/9/1188. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)