pitomba

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noun

Talisia esculenta, a South American tree.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounpitomba (plural pitombas)

plural pitombas

  1. Talisia esculenta, a South American tree.
  2. The sweetish-sour brown-skinned fruit of Talisia esculenta.

    Lucretia had made it a point not to eat anything she hadn't tasted first in Louisiana, believing she could be poisoned by the unfamiliar milky goiabas, pungent jambos, prickly graviolas, or acidy pitombas.

    1984, Gay Courter, River of Dreams
  3. Eugenia luschnathiana, an evergreen shrub of Brazil.
  4. The globose orange-yellow berry of Eugenia luschnathiana.

Origin

  1. Old Tupipitomba
  2. Portuguesepitomba
  3. Englishpitomba

Borrowed from Portuguese pitomba, from Old Tupi pitomba.

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Translations

Persian گاوچشم
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Portuguese pitomba
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Cite this entry
APA

pitomba. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pitomba

MLA

“pitomba.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pitomba. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pitomba,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pitomba.

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