guava

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a tropical American tree or shrub of the myrtle family, especially Psidium guajava

   The guava spread rapidly through the abandoned tropical garden.

2. 2
   noun

   the round or oval yellowish fruit of this tree, with fragrant pink or white flesh and many hard seeds

   She blended ripe guava into a fragrant juice.

Borrowed from Spanish guayaba, from Taino wayaba, the Indigenous Caribbean name for the fruit and tree. English shortened the Spanish form to guava during the early colonial period.

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