Meanings
- The Brazilian guava tree Eugenia stipitata or its fruit. (Compare araca.)
17.2.13 Araca-Boi Fruit [Eugenia stipitata] Araca-boi is a yellow round fruit, about 12 cm in diameter (Franco and Shibamoto, 2000). The fruit has a distinctive acidic flavor.
2016, Sunil Pareek, Postharvest Ripening Physiology of Crops, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 5671 more example
A few examples of this constantly growing group are araca-boi, acerola, soursop, babaco, and naranjilla among others described in Table 6.1. Araca-boi Araca-boi (Eugenia stipitata) is a yellow skin round fruit with a creamy white pulp.
2016, Ray Marsili, Flavor, Fragrance, and Odor Analysis, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 129
Origin
- Tupian
- Portuguesearaça-boi
- Englisharaca-boi
From Portuguese araça-boi, from Tupian.
More words from Portuguese, Tupian
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