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• n  small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit
• n  large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples

• Pointing to a Mexican green-skinned cherimoya ($6.
• Grocery stores and produce markets are beginning to stock everything from taco shells and frozen burritos to such produce as jicama, cassava, cherimoya, yucca and papaya.

• cherimoya tree
• Annona cherimola
• cherimolla

News & Articles

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• Customs agents seize exotic fruit containing pest at BWI
  Traveler from India had cherimoya fruit with mealybug inside, officials say U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted a type of mealybug pest in an exotic fruit at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, federal officials said Monday.        
  July 29, 2013 - Baltimore Sun