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Guava  n.  A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.






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"Guava" Quotes from Famous Books



... and deep, cool piazzas, and breezy halls and good rooms, and baths and gas, and a billiard-room, you might imagine yourself in San Francisco, were it not that you drive in under the shade of cocoa-nut, tamarind, guava, and algeroba trees, and find all the doors and windows open in midwinter; and ladies and children in white sitting ...
— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff

... productions of the inter-tropical regions. In the midst of bananas, orange, cocoa-nut, and breadfruit trees, spots are cleared where yams, sweet potatoes, sugar-cane, and pine-apples are cultivated. Even the brushwood is a fruit tree, namely, the guava, which from its abundance is as noxious as a weed. In Brazil I have often admired the contrast of varied beauty in the banana, palm, and orange tree; here we have in addition the breadfruit tree, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf. ...
— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock



Words linked to "Guava" :   genus Psidium, Psidium, true guava, Brazilian guava, Psidium guajava, cattley guava, guava bush, yellow cattley guava, pineapple guava, strawberry guava, Psidium littorale



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