0 a large tropical fruit with sweet white or yellow flesh and large dark seeds, or the tree on which it grows:
At the fresh fruit stalls we stock up on dragon fruits and custard apples.
Often regarded as the true custard apple, the sugar apple (Annona squamosa), is sweeter than the cherimoya.
Local restaurants offer this rice pudding in a wide range of flavours including mango, fig, custard apple, etc.
In Brazil, I tried custard apple juice, sweet and creamy but with a sharp edge.