durion

plural durions

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of durian.

   The Durion is a large, spiky fruit that is often used in Asian cuisine.

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   Poor monkeys! how I pity them. The only durions they can eat are the overripe ones, which fall from the trees and burst open.

   1883, “More about the durion”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas, volume 10, part 1

   And if someone appeared claiming to love the smell of the durion fruit, whose odor is so off-putting that it's banned on Singapore's mass transit system, we would not say that olfactory judgments are therefore purely relative.

   2022, Apologetical Aesthetics, Wipf and Stock Publishers