Usage examples (7)

• The top vote getter with the local people is the canistel (Pouteria campechiana-see drawing), simply because it is good food.
• Then envision going to other trees and doing the same thing for 10, 20 or 30 minutes: avocado, canistel, loquat, macadamia etc.
• Happily, it turned out to be the equal of that canistel which -- while we both salivated -- my grandmother had regaled me with.
• Her favorite game consisted of explaining the canistel fruit to me, as there is nothing more difficult than understanding the taste of something you've never tried.