custard apple

plural custard apples

1. Any of several tropical fruits in the genus Annona:
   1. A bullock's heart (Annona reticulata);
   2. A soursop (Annona muricata; fruit and tree);
   3. A sugar apple (Annona squamosa);
   4. A cherimoya (Annona cherimola).
2. A pawpaw (fruit of Asimina triloba).

   If you’ve ever sampled an American custard apple, a prairie banana or a hillbilly mango, then you’ve eaten a pawpaw.

   2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN