Definition of "custard apple" [custard apple]

• Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona, especially A. reticulata, having large, nearly heart-shaped edible fruits with white to yellowish flesh. (noun)
• The fruit of any of these trees. (noun)

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• "He took himself off to the gardens to eat his custard apple — a pudding inside a knobbly green skin — and to relax into the magic ease of the afternoon."