'Custard apple' definitions:
Definition of 'custard apple'
From: WordNet
noun
Any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp [syn: custard apple, custard apple tree]
noun
The fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the genus Annona having soft edible pulp
Definition of 'Custard apple'
From: GCIDE
- Custard \Cus"tard\ (k[u^]s"t[~e]rd), n. [Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See Crust, and cf. Crustated.] A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. [1913 Webster]
- Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona ({Anona squamosa}, Anona reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp.
- Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]