guava
A tropical fruit with a yellowish-green skin and a sweet, fragrant white or pink flesh containing small seeds.
/ˈɡwɑvə/
[C/U] Both
pl: guavas
This term evokes a sensory experience of tropical warmth and intense, sweet-tart flavors. It is most commonly used in culinary or botanical contexts, carrying a connotation of exoticism and freshness associated with warm climates.
In a cultural sense, the word often appears in discussions about regional diets in the Caribbean, Central America, and Southeast Asia, where it is prized both as a raw snack and as a base for thick jams and jellies.
Countable when referring to the individual fruits sitting in a bowl. Uncountable when referring to the fruit as a flavor or a mass of pulp used in cooking.