anchovy pear

anchovy pear

n

(Plants) a Jamaican tree, Grias cauliflora, bearing edible fruits that taste like the mango: family Lecythidaceae

[C18: so called from the use of the fruit as an hors d'oeuvre]

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Noun	1.	anchovy pear - West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango anchovy pear tree, Grias cauliflora river pear, anchovy pear - West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickled genus Grias, Grias - anchovy pear tree fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
	2.	anchovy pear - West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickled river pear edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh anchovy pear, anchovy pear tree, Grias cauliflora - West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango

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