soursapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

soursap (plural soursaps)

1. Misspelling of soursop.
   • 1894 [1856], The Indiana School Journal, Indiana State Teachers' Association, page 586:

     Anna Balls in writing on fruit says, "We have the cocoanut, sugar apple, jannaie apples, sappyolilies, soursap, bananas, grapes, pawpaw, tamarinds, gooseberries, hog plums, Spanish limes, watermelon limes, dates, lemons, almonds, pomegranate, mushmelons, purge-nuts, Christnuts, mulberries, oranges and many other fruits."

   • 1894, Henry Bailey, Travel and Adventures in the Congo Free State and Its Big Game Shooting, Chapman & Hall, page 204:

     Fruit trees, such as orange, mango, soursap, guava, and breadfruit, had been first brought up from the coast by Stanley and others.

   • 2001, Frank Lauria, Blue Limbo: A Novel, Frog Limited, pages 3–4:

     Back in Jamaica, where both of them had been born, soursap juice was held in high esteem as an all-purpose tonic.