Crossword clues for guava
guava
- Yellow tropical fruit
- Globular yellow fruit
- Tropical jelly-making fruit
- Tropical jam fruit
- Tropical sorbet flavor
- Tropical jelly source
- Tropical fruit used for jelly
- Green tropical fruit
- Tropical jelly
- Tropical fruit with pink flesh
- Tropical fruit found in Hawaiian Punch
- Pink-fleshed tropical fruit
- Its fruit is made into paste
- Hawaiian Punch fruit
- Fruit used in making jams
- Exotic smoothie ingredient
- Exotic jelly
- Tropical sorbet choice
- Tropical jelly flavor
- Tropical fruit used in jelly
- Tropical fruit that's native to Mexico
- Tropical fruit that's fiber-ricH
- Sweet globular yellow fruit
- Oval-shaped tropical fruit
- One of the tropical fruit flavors in the original Hawaiian Punch
- High-pectin fruit
- Fruit-bearing tree of the myrtle family
- Fruit of the tropics
- Fruit in Bahamian duff
- Fragrant tropical fruit
- Flavor of pink ice cream
- Exotic sorbet choice
- Jelly fruit
- Fruit jelly source
- Tropical fruit with pink pulp
- Pastry paste base
- Exotic jelly flavor
- Pink-pulped produce
- Jelly flavor
- Fruit whose name comes from Arawak
- Exotic jelly fruit
- Eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies
- Tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp
- Widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit
- Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit
- Small tropical American shrubby tree
- Tropical fruit for jelly
- Tropical fruit tree
- Kind of jelly
- Fruit for jelly
- Mostly vague when stewing a fruit
- Fruit, a volume taking month to come up
- Ava Gardner initially returns carrying posh fruit
- Pear-shaped tropical fruit
- Pale orange tropical fruit
- Boss consuming article, a fruit
- Article swallowed by Cockney boss - a fruit
- Tropical fruit with yellow skin and pink pulp
- Pear-shaped fruit
- Exotic fruit flavor
- Smoothie fruit
- Yellow-skinned fruit
- Sweet tropical fruit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Guava \Gua"va\, n. [Sp. guayaba the guava fruit, guayabo the guava tree; prob. fr. the native West Indian name.] A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Spanish guaya, variant of guayaba, from Arawakan (W. Indies) guayabo "guava tree" or Tupi guajava.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, ''Psidium guajava''. 2 Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jelly. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color.
WordNet
n. small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit [syn: strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava, Psidium littorale]
small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit [syn: true guava, guava bush, Psidium guajava]
tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies
Wikipedia
Guavas (singular guava, ) are common tropical fruits cultivated and enjoyed in many tropical and subtropical regions.
Psidium guajava (common guava, lemon guava) is a small tree in the Myrtle family ( Myrtaceae), native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Although related species may also be called guavas, they actually belong to other genera, such as the "pineapple guava" Acca sellowiana.
Guava are a type of tropical fruit, commonly from the species Psidium guajava, the "common guava". Guava may also refer to:
Usage examples of "guava".
The Hispaniolians locate their elysium in a pleasant valley abounding with guava, delicious fruits, cool shades, and murmuring rivulets, where they expect to live again with their departed ancestors and friends.
When he comes for dinner, it is I who ask Maude to stew guavas for him, and to make a custard to go with it.
In his twenty-three years at Chokoloskee, he had never seen sandflies so bad or guavas so plentiful.
Oranges, pineapples, bananas, strawberries, lemons, limes, mangoes, guavas, melons, and a rare and curious luxury called the chirimoya, which is deliciousness itself.
I remember the rainbow-coloured harbour of Honolulu Hilo, the simply joyous Arcadie at the foot of Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea which lifted violet shoulders to the morning, the groves of cocoa-palms and tamarinds, the waterfalls dropping over sheer precipices a thousand feet into the ocean, the green embrasures where the mango, the guava, and the lovi lovi grow, and where the hibiscus lifts red hands to the light.
Its yellow plaster walls were cracked and overrun by pink bougainvillaeas and straggling guavas, the tin roof sported several visible holes, and the whole place gave off an air of mournful dilapidation.
The terrain was higher here, with a growth of crotons, calabash trees, custard apples and even guavas cactus.
Nutmeg, cinnamon, guava, fig and coconut-palm grew in the vast cultivations, and the strange jak tree with its heroic fifty-pound fruit hanging from the trunk, and its brother the breadfruit tree, in the guise of the champion of watermelon plants.
Then he's roasting a pitiful little sucking pig and making an avocado pear salad and we're to finish up with guavas and coconut cream.
There was a bottle of garlicky -criollo- sauce for the pork, a bowl of mixed green and black olives, and butter and guava jelly for the rolls.
On the way back they had all enjoyed various fruits they had acquired: bananas, oranges, passion fruit, cape gooseberries with their lanternlike husks, custard apples and guavas, avocados, coconuts, papayas, and pineapples.
On the way back they had all enjoyed various fruits they had acquired: bananas, oranges, passion fruit, cape gooseberries with their lanternlike husks, custard apples and guavas, avocados, coconuts, papayas and pineapples.
There were ginger and berries, mango, guava, Java plum, and of course bananas.
A typical Whip-pie dinner, served at high noon in the heat of the day, consisted of fish chowder, roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, creamed cabbage cooked in ham fat, delicious chewy biscuits made of taro and drenched in butter, mashed potatoes, candied yams, pickled mango, alligator pear salad with heavy dressing, French bread with guava jelly, banana pie marvelously thick and rich, followed by coffee with cream, and cigars.
They both shook their heads, walking in silence for a while, until indeed they reached the market: and as they turned the corner they entered another world, crowded, busy, talkative, cheerful, full of colour - stalls with fruit and vegetables of every kind, brilliant in the mounting sun: plantains, bananas, papaws, guavas, oranges, limes, melons, pineapples, pigeonpeas, ockra, cream-fruit, sweet-sops, coco-nuts.