Definition of "araca" in English

noun

1. Any of a number of Brazilian trees or the pear-like, apple-shaped guava fruits they bear: Psidium cattleyanum (syn. Psidium araca; (cherry guava, strawberry guava), or another Psidium (guava), or Mosiera guineensis (Brazilian guave), or Eugenia stipitata.

   • 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