"feijoa" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /feɪˈʒoʊ.ə/, /feɪˈd͡ʒoʊ.ə/, /feɪˈhoʊ.ə/, /ˈfiːd͡ʒɐʉ.ɐ/ [New-Zealand] Forms: feijoas [plural]
Etymology: From the New Latin former genus name Feijoa, which was named after Portuguese botanist João da Silva Feijó by the German botanist Otto Karl Berg. Etymology templates: {{der|en|NL.|-}} New Latin, {{m|mul|Feijoa}} Feijoa Head templates: {{en-noun}} feijoa (plural feijoas)
  1. A South American evergreen shrub, Acca sellowiana (syn. Feijoa sellowiana). Categories (lifeform): Fruits, Myrtle family plants Translations (shrub): feyxoa (Azerbaijani), feijoa [feminine] (Catalan), 費約果 (Chinese Mandarin), 费约果 (fèiyuē guǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), aka jedlá (Czech), feijoa (Dutch), feijoa (Finnish), goyavier de Montevideo [masculine] (French), feixoa [feminine] (Galician), ფეიხოა (peixoa) (Georgian), brasilianische Guave [feminine] (German), פיג׳ואה [feminine] (Hebrew), mirtuszdió (Hungarian), feijoa (Interlingua), feijoa [feminine] (Italian), フェイジョア (feijoa) (Japanese), 페이조아 (peijoa) (Korean), فیجوا (feyjoâ) (Persian), feijoa [feminine] (Portuguese), фейхоа́ (fejxoá) [feminine] (Russian), фейхо́а (fejxóa) [feminine] (Russian), фейхуа́ (fejxuá) [feminine] (Russian), фейху́а (fejxúa) [feminine] (Russian), feijoa [feminine] (Spanish), feijoa [class-10, class-9] (Swahili), feijoa (Swedish), feijoa (Turkish), фейхо́а (fejxóa) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-feijoa-en-noun-5iNdRGe- Disambiguation of Fruits: 71 29 Disambiguation of Myrtle family plants: 81 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, New Zealand English Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 86 14 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 89 11 Disambiguation of New Zealand English: 96 4 Disambiguation of 'shrub': 55 45
  2. The green, ellipsoid fruit of this shrub, having a tart and sweet taste. Translations (fruit): fejchoa [feminine] (Czech)
    Sense id: en-feijoa-en-noun-9yGncFAN Disambiguation of 'fruit': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: guavasteen, pineapple guava

Inflected forms

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