0 a fruit with rough green skin, soft white flesh, and large black seeds that grows especially in Central America, or the small tree that produces this fruit. It is a kind of custard apple: --
The cherimoya is subtropical, growing in tropical countries only at considerable elevations, where the climate is cool.
The cherimoya is ripe when it is soft to touch and the outside turns a darker colour.
The cherimoya is my favourite fruit. The flavour is somewhere between a passionfruit and a pear.