pitomba
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Tupian.
Noun
[edit]pitomba (plural pitombas)
- Talisia esculenta, a South American tree.
- The sweetish-sour brown-skinned fruit of Talisia esculenta.
- 1984, Gay Courter, River of Dreams:
- 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.
- Eugenia luschnathiana, an evergreen shrub of Brazil.
- The globose orange-yellow berry of Eugenia luschnathiana.