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tamarillo /ˌtaməˈrɪləʊ /noun (plural tamarillos)1A tropical South American plant of the nightshade family, which bears edible egg-shaped red fruits. Also called tree tomato.- Cyphomandra betaceae, family Solanaceae.
Four of the 14 orders deal with commodity levies, which are voted upon by growers of tamarillos, meat, wool, and wine grapes....- The tamarillo is subtropical rather than tropical and flourishes between 5,000 and 10,000 ft. in its Andean homeland.
- Tamarillos were first introduced into New Zealand from Asia in the late 1800s.
1.1The fruit of the tamarillo.And a good tonic it is, according to recent research, which shows that tamarillos rate very well as a source of antioxidants compared with other common fruit and vegetables....- In restaurants, we are offered anything from the faintly recognisable tamarillo or star anise ice-cream to absurd flavours such as anchovy or haggis.
- Products like buttercup squash, table grapes, chestnuts, persimmons, avocados, tamarillos, boysenberries, and Nashi Asian pears, just demonstrate the wide diversity of horticultural exports from New Zealand to overseas markets.
Origin 1960s (originally NZ): an invented name, perhaps suggested by Spanish tomatillo, diminutive of tomate 'tomato'. Rhymes armadillo, billow, cigarillo, Murillo, Negrillo, peccadillo, pillow, Utrillo, willow |