Crossword-Solution: LUCUMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lucuma | n. | An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits. |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
ITOMNEO
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A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with LUCUMA (5)
LUCUMA MAMMOSUM.--This sapotaceous plant is cultivated for its fruit, which is called marmalade, on account of its containing a thick agreeably flavored pulp, bearing some resemblance in appearance and taste to quince marmalade.
The Lucuma is produced only in the southern provinces of the coast of Peru, and is chiefly imported from the north of Chile.
Here the loud chirping (for it cannot be called croaking) of little frogs heard by night—the granadilla in elegant flowering festoons seen by day on the pacay and lucuma tree, tell the warm and thirsty traveller that he has come to the land of “guarapo,”[7] where he may enjoy the cool of the corridor, and cast off the load of his Sierra ponchos and heavy clothing.
There was even then a little village on the high bluff; and he found two of his countrymen gathering _sapotes_ (_Lucuma mammosa_) to save the little colony of Spaniards, a few leagues farther south, from starving.
The sapote (_Lucuma mammosa_) somewhat resembles the aguacate in the size and position of the edible pulp; but the outside is rough and brown, and the salmon-colored interior is insipid and inferior.