alligator apple

English

Etymology

From the fact that American alligators sometimes eat the fruit.

Noun

alligator apple (countable and uncountable, plural alligator apples)

  1. Annona glabra, a tropical fruit tree that grows in swamps.
  2. The fruit of Annona glabra, oblong to spherical and roughly apple-sized.

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