0 a round or heart-shaped tropical fruit with sweet white flesh, many black seeds and a hard green skin divided into many small sections, or the tree on which this fruit grows. It is a type of custard apple:
Martin, a local farmer, handed me a sweetsop, also known as a sugar apple, that looks like a pine cone and tastes like custard.
A survey revealed that people with PSP-like illnesses were more likely than others to have consumed two native fruits called sweetsop and soursop.
The sweetsop is a knobbly green fruit which is approximately the size of a tennis ball.