chirimoya
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Of Peruvian fruits, the most delicious is the chirimoya.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
“For these three minutes I have been standing close by you, with this freshly gathered chirimoya, and you took no notice of me.”
From Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance by Westall, William
“He who has not tasted the chirimoya fruit, has yet to learn what fruit is,” says Markham.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
All the houses are surrounded by fruit trees—orange, lemon, lime, ahuacate and chirimoya.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick
Let him taste a chirimoya ma fille chèrie.”
From Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance by Westall, William
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