Of the same family as the chirimoya is the guanabana (Anona muricata), or sour sop, an unattractive name for so delicious a fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
I also tried chirimoya which is a green fruit with white flesha and big black seeds. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Atemoya: manmade hybrid of chirimoya and saramuyo (both described below). From Wordnik.com. [Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit] Reference
Used in ice cream and ices, the chirimoya makes a nice sauce for topping desserts, pancakes and waffles. From Wordnik.com. [Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit] Reference
Mention vanilla, and people are apt to think of the ice-cream flavor they select when confronted with a mind-boggling choice involving everything from chirimoya to cheesecake: "just plain vanilla.". From Wordnik.com. [Vanilla: A Mexican Native Regains Its Reputation] Reference
Even that sweetest and most beautiful of flowers, the passion-flower, with its mystical cross and five protruding seeds, was running over a frame, and yielding a profusion of blossoms, and a fruit -- the granada -- which almost equals in richness and delicacy the fruit of the chirimoya. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
I won't buy cherries from Chile, but chirimoya, a creamy fruit native to Chile?. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
"He who has not tasted the chirimoya fruit, has yet to learn what fruit is," says Markham. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
It has the color, taste, and size of the chirimoya; but the rind, which incloses a rich, custardly pulp, frosted with sugar, is scaled. From Wordnik.com. [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference
But then I'd have missed out on the male bonding that is shovelling mud during a torrential storm and the delights of an old lady's homemade chirimoya flan. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Then he handed me a bunch of juicy grapes, but I still asked for more figs; and when I had finished as many as he thought were good for me, he tore open a chirimoya, and let me eat its snow-white juicy fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas] Reference
Nothing, indeed, can surpass the flavour of the chirimoya, a fruit sometimes double the size of a cocoa-nut, tasting like a mixture of strawberries, cream, and sugar, with a fragrance far superior to any mixture. From Wordnik.com. [In New Granada Heroes and Patriots] Reference
Cumana: the chirimoya (very different from the custard-apple and sweet-sop of the West India Islands) at Loxa in Peru; the grenadilla, or parcha, at Caracas; and the pine-apple at Esmeralda, or in the island of Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Margareta or at Cumana: the chirimoya (very different from the custard-apple and sweet-sop of the West India Islands) at Loxa in Peru; the grenadilla, or parcha, at Caracas; and the pine-apple at Esmeralda, or in the island of Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
All these, with the exquisite rose apple, with a deep red tinge in its young leaves, the fan palm, the chirimoya, and numberless others, and the slender shafts of the coco palms rising high above them, with their waving plumes and perpetual fruitage, were a perfect festival of beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Gradually the vegetation changed: fine, fresh-looking European herbage and trees succeeded the less hardy though more brilliant trees and flowers of the tropics; the banana and chirimoya gave place to the strong oak, and higher still, these were interspersed with the dark green of the pine. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico] Reference
The delicious chirimoya takes the first place. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Durasno, the protea, the psidium, the jambos, the chirimoya of. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Oranges, pine-apples, bananas, strawberries, lemons, limes, mangoes, guavas, melons, and a rare and curious luxury called the chirimoya, which is deliciousness itself. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
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