ˈsweet-sop
[sop n.1]
The sweet fruit of a tree or shrub, Anona squamosa, allied to the sour-sop, extensively cultivated in tropical countries. Also the tree or shrub itself. (Cf. sugar-apple in sugar n. 5 c.)
| 1696 Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 205 Anona, foliis odoratis minoribus, fructu conoide squamoso parvo dulci... Sweet-sop. In pratis & agris campestribus ubique spontanea reperitur. 1756 P. Browne Jamaica 256 The Sweet-sop or Sugar Apple Tree. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 54/1 The sweet-sop..is often only a small bush,..it bears a greenish fruit covered with scales, and having the appearance of a young pine cone. 1871 Kingsley At Last ii, The sweet sop—a passable fruit, or rather congeries of fruits, looking like a green and purple strawberry, of the bigness of an orange. |