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eggfruit

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egg·fruit  (gfrt)
n.
See canistel.
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Noun1.eggfruit - ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies
edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
canistel, canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa - tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit


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Vegetables like cucumber, eggfruit and capsicum, which were not grown in this region before, are now a common sight in the marketplaces of the mountainous region.
Canistel, known also as eggfruit, has the texture of the old-fashioned frozen custard that’s too expensive to make these days, and her version carries a hint of rum raisin.
 
 
 
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