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‖ guava|ˈgwɑːvə|
Forms: 6 ? guannaba, 6–7 guiava, 6, 8 guaiava, 7 goyave, guavar, -ee, -er, guayava, -avo, guiave, -avo, guayva, gwave, 8 goava, gojavu, goyava, -avier, guaba, guavo, guayabo, guyava, gwavah, (9 gauva), 7– guava.
[Sp. guayaba, -abo, presumably a. some S. American or W. Indian name.]
1. A tree of the myrtaceous genus Psidium of tropical America, esp. P. Guayava (now naturalized in many tropical countries), which yields a fruit of an acid flavour, used to make jelly, etc.
white guava, Psidium pyriferum. red guava, P. pomiferum. mountain guava, P. montanum. Also black guava, Guettarda argentea, a rubiaceous tree of Jamaica, having a black, globose, pulpy fruit (Cent. Dict.).
1555Eden Decades 81 They noorysshe a tree which they caule Guaiaua [printed Guaiana], that beareth a frute much resemblynge the kynde of citrons which are commonly cauled limones, of taste sumwhat sharpe myxt with swetenes. 1604E. G[rimstone] tr. D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xxiv. 277 The Guayavos be other trees which commonly carry an ill fruite. 1660Hickeringill Jamaica (1661) 12 Nature hath stor'd it..with Oranges, Lymes..Guavars. 1748Earthquake Peru iii. 209 There as those of the Caribbee Islands, as Ananas, Guayavas. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 239 The Mountain Guava. This is one of the largest trees in the woods of Jamaica. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 48 Besides these trees, here are also the tamarind, the medlar, the sapote, the papayo, the guayabo,..and several others. 1859R. Thompson Gardener's Assist. 33 Musas, Granadillas, Guavas, or other tropical plants bearing fruit, should be watered occasionally with manure water.
2. The fruit of the guava-tree.
1555Eden Decades 45 The fruite cauled Guannaba vnknowen vnto vs, and sumwhat lyke vnto a quynse. 1577Frampton tr. Monardes 90 b, They brought from the firme lande the seede of the fruite..whiche they call guiauas. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 583 Feeding on nothing but roots, and Guiauos, a fruit like figs. 1626P. Nichols Sir F. Drake Revived (1628) 50 Sundry sorts of fruits..Mammeas, Guyauas [etc.]. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 71 The Guaver grows on a Tree, bodied and leav'd like a Cherry⁓tree..the fruit of the bigness of a small Lemon, and near that colour. 1698Froger Voy. 61 The Goyave is somewhat bigger than a Nut; Its Pulp is red, very stony, and of the Taste of a Peach. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Goyavier, a sort of Fruit growing in the West-Indies. 1796Stedman Surinam II. xvi. 4 There are two species of guava; that which is the sweetest has the smallest quantity of seeds. 1879Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Ind. Househ. Managem. 58 Guavas are only eatable when preserved or in jellies.
3. attrib., as guava-bush, guava-fruit, guava-jelly, guava-plantation, guava-tree; guava-apple = 2; guavafly-catcher, Turdus analis (Cassell, 1884).
1866Mary B. Clarke Mosses fr. a Rolling Stone 120 Where the *guava-apple ripens.
1792M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 101 The psidium pomiferum, or *guava bush.
1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 222 The *Guava Fruit grows on a hard scrubbed Shrub.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair lv. Cayenne pepper, hot pickles, *guava jelly, and colonial produce.
1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 400 A narrow bridle-path..led us through a *guava plantation.
1630Capt. Smith Trav. & Adv. xxvi. 56 *Gwane [sic] trees beare a fruit so bigge as a Peare, good and wholsome. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1699) II. ii. 107 The N.W. part of it is full of Guaver Trees of the largest variety. 1819T. E. Bowdich Mission Ashantee i. ii. 15 Richly varied with palm, banana, plantain, and guava trees. |