strawberry guava

noun

1. a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.

Example Sentences

This has all helped the Thorpes stay afloat while they churn out new flavors, like berry sangria sorbet and strawberry guava cocktail, boost their social media game and research expansion possibilities.

From New York Times

In many areas devastated by ROD, foresters are worried 'ōhi'a won't be able to return because fast-growing invasive trees, such as strawberry guava, will crowd them out.

From Science Magazine

Yuen said more than half of Hawaii’s watershed forests have been lost, particularly to grazing animals, fires and invasive plants like strawberry guava trees.

From Washington Times

Feral pigs eat native plants and, through their scat, spread invasive ones like the forest-clotting strawberry guava.

From New York Times

The common guavas are rank and harsh, but the 'strawberry guava,' as it is locally called, has a delicate, subacid flavour not easily equalled.

From Project Gutenberg