araca
English
Etymology
Tupian, probably via Portuguese araça.
Noun
araca (plural aracas)
- Any of a number of Brazilian trees or the pear-like, apple-shaped guava fruits they bear: Psidium cattleyanum or Psidium guineense (syn. Psidium araca) or another Psidium, or Eugenia stipitata. (Sometimes species are distinguished by compound names like araca-boi.)
- 1625, Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 1307:
- Of the Araca trees are great abundance, of many sorts; the fruit is certaine small Peares, […]
- 1768, The World Displayed; Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 8:
- The Araca is a sort of small pear, or, at least, it more nearly resembles that than any other fruit: it is of red, yellow, or green colour; for there are of all these kinds in Brasíl, and they are extremely plentiful. This fruit is very pleasant, and is admired ...
- 1925, Botanical Abstracts, page 1349:
- The fruit is recommended to those having lung troubles. It produces an excellent jelly. Related plants are araca (Psidium araca) and guaviroba (Campomanesia virescens) the fruit of which also can be used for jelly. When the araca is ...
- 1996, Tropical Fruit News, page 32:
- I'm rather excited about is the araca, Eugenia stipitata, (referred to as araca-boi in Brazil, according to Julia Morton) which is doing marginally well to very well. I planted about three hundred out, and I have about eight that are doing very well.
- 2006, CWI Haminiuk, MR Sierakowski, JRMB Vidal, MI Masson, Influence of temperature on the rheological behaviour of whole araca pulp (Psidium cattleianum Sabine), in Food Sci. Technol. 39, cited in 2015, Seema Patel, Emerging Bioresources with Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Prospects, Springer (→ISBN), page 12
- 2012, Biological Pigments—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition, ScholarlyEditions (→ISBN)
- According to the authors of a study from Sao Paulo, Brazil, “Guava (Psidium guajava) and araca (Psidium spp.) plants are important for the Brazilian economy,..."
- 1625, Purchas His Pilgrimes, page 1307: