araca

plural aracas

1. Any of a number of Brazilian trees or the pear-like, apple-shaped guava fruits they bear: Psidium cattleyanum (syn. Psidium araca; (cherry guava, strawberry guava), or another Psidium (guava), or Mosiera guineensis (Brazilian guave), or Eugenia stipitata.

   Of the Araca trees are great abundance, of many sorts; the fruit is certaine small Peares, […]

   1625, Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 1307

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   The Araca is a sort of small pear, or, at least, it more nearly resembles that than any other fruit: it is of red, yellow, or green colour; for there are of all these kinds in Brasíl, and they are extremely plentiful. This fruit is very pleasant, and is admired ...

   1768, The World Displayed; Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 8

   The fruit is recommended to those having lung troubles. It produces an excellent jelly. Related plants are araca (Psidium araca) and guaviroba (Campomanesia virescens) the fruit of which also can be used for jelly. When the araca is ...

   1925, Botanical Abstracts, page 1349

   I'm rather excited about is the araca, Eugenia stipitata, (referred to as araca-boi in Brazil, according to Julia Morton) which is doing marginally well to very well. I planted about three hundred out, and I have about eight that are doing very well.

   1996, Tropical Fruit News, page 32

   2006, CWI Haminiuk, MR Sierakowski, JRMB Vidal, MI Masson, Influence of temperature on the rheological behaviour of whole araca pulp (Psidium cattleianum Sabine), in Food Sci. Technol. 39, cited in 2015, Seema Patel, Emerging Bioresources with Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Prospects, Springer (→ISBN), page 12

   According to the authors of a study from Sao Paulo, Brazil, “Guava (Psidium guajava) and araca (Psidium spp.) plants are important for the Brazilian economy,..."

   2012, Biological Pigments—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition, ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN