GUAVA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guava mean? 

• GUAVA (noun)
  The noun GUAVA has 3 senses:

1. small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit

2. small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit

3. tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies

  Familiarity information: GUAVA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUAVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

guava; Psidium littorale; strawberry guava; yellow cattley guava

Hypernyms ("guava" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Holonyms ("guava" is a member of...):

genus Psidium; Psidium (guavas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

guava; guava bush; Psidium guajava; true guava

Hypernyms ("guava" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "guava"):

guava (tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies)

Holonyms ("guava" is a member of...):

genus Psidium; Psidium (guavas)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("guava" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("guava" is a part of...):

guava; guava bush; Psidium guajava; true guava (small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit)

 Context examples 

For three days I lived off guavas, ohia-apples, and bananas, all of which grew wild in the jungle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A linear, unsaturated hydrocarbon carotenoid, the major red pigment in fruits such as tomatoes, pink grapefruit, apricots, red oranges, watermelon, rosehips, and guava.

(Lycopene, NCI Thesaurus)

Miss Mills had sailed, and Dora and I had gone aboard a great East Indiaman at Gravesend to see her; and we had had preserved ginger, and guava, and other delicacies of that sort for lunch; and we had left Miss Mills weeping on a camp-stool on the quarter-deck, with a large new diary under her arm, in which the original reflections awakened by the contemplation of Ocean were to be recorded under lock and key.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)