NOUN
- small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit
- large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples
How To Use cherimoya In A Sentence
- At my job at the software company, I had a co-worker who was an exotic fruit fiend, and I got introduced to sweetsops and cactus fruit and the cherimoya.
- Late in October, for example, it occurred to Eduard that if he cut a cherimoya a custard apple with green indented skin and a creamy white interior into thin slices, the flesh looked like crabmeat; now a dish with cherimoya and spider crab is on the menu. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
- The cherimoya is as delicious as the zapote; and like the zapote, it has to be very soft before it's ready to eat. Strange Fruit
- The fruits most likely to be intended by the term are cherimoya, sugar-apple (alias sweetsop), bullock's heart, and (in the USA) pond apple.
- The cherimoya is generally (but not always) larger than the zapote. Strange Fruit
- At Cedar House you get not only the farm's own just-roasted coffee but an array of delicious tropical fruits like apple bananas, starfruit, and cherimoyas - all grown on the farm or very nearby.
- Both atemoya, grown in Florida, and cherimoya, grown in California, have green, leathery skins with either scales or a notched, medallion-like design.
- Try nectarines, star fruit, cherimoyas, passion fruit, kiwis or any of the countless items of produce most quality supermarkets stock.
- If you should happen to come across ripe cherimoya most likely in the winter months, please try this drink with peeled and diced pieces of that fabulous fruit. Daisy’s Holiday Cooking
- Our grove is devoted to less-mainstream fruits, including kumquats, persimmons, cherimoyas, minneolas and blood oranges.