Otaheite apple

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noun

a Society Islands tree, Spondias cytherea, of the cashew family, having whitish flowers and yellow, edible, plumlike fruit.

the fruit itself.

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Also called ambarella.

Origin of Otaheite apple

First recorded in 1855–60

Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”
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This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
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Twenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!
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All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.
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And it did not take Squinty long to learn to jump the rope when there was no apple on the other side.
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Then Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.
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