anchovy pear

n (Plants) a Jamaican tree, Grias cauliflora, bearing edible fruits that taste like the mango: family Lecythidaceae [C18: so called from the use of the fruit as an hors d'oeuvre]

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1.anchovy pear - West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mangoanchovy pear tree, Grias cauliflorariver pear, anchovy pear - West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickledgenus Grias, Grias - anchovy pear treefruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit

2.anchovy pear - West Indian fruit resembling the mango; often pickledriver pearedible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet fleshanchovy pear, anchovy pear tree, Grias cauliflora - West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango

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noun West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango

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anchovy pear tree
Grias cauliflora

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noun West Indian tree bearing edible fruit resembling mango

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noun West Indian fruit resembling the mango

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