Canistel
| canistel | |
noun | |
| 1. | tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit |
| 2. | ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies |
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canistel
(Pouteria campechiana), small tree of the sapodilla family (Sapotaceae), native to northern South America and cultivated in other tropical regions. It grows 3-7.5 metres (10-25 feet) tall and has spreading branches, alternate leathery leaves, and small white flowers. The canistel fruit is oval in shape, 5-10 cm (2-4 inches) long, and orange-yellow in colour. Its edible orange flesh is sweet.
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Canistel
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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