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語源

From Malay langsat.

発音

• IPA: /ˈlɑŋ.sɑt/, /ˈlæŋ.sæt/

名詞

langsat (plural langsats)

1. The tree Lansium domesticum.

   Synonym: duku

2. A small, whitish-brown fruit of Southeast Asia, from the tree Lansium domesticum, with fleshy pulp and subacid taste.

   Synonym: duku

   • 2008 June 1, Mary Roach, “Beyond Harry & David”, in New York Times‎:

     He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”

   • 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 39:

     He always had a good time, and always would come home with a bunch of bananas or a basket of langsat and durian fruit, which would definitely make Mamek happy, as well as his mother and father.

アナグラム

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