GUAVA
What does "GUAVA" mean?
A sweet tropical fruit with pink or white flesh and many small seeds, from a tree native to the Americas.
Meanings
- The round, fragrant fruit, eaten fresh or made into juice, jelly, and paste. She blended ripe guava into a thick, pink smoothie.
- The tree or shrub that bears this fruit. A guava grew wild at the edge of the property.
Did you know?
- Per 100 grams, raw guava packs about 228 mg of vitamin C - several times what an orange of the same weight offers.
Word origin
From Spanish 'guayaba', borrowed from an Arawakan or Taino language of the Caribbean and tropical South America, where the fruit originates.
Remember it
GUAVA: 'Green Until A Vivid Awakening' - it ripens from hard green to fragrant gold.
A little poem
Split it - and the pink
spills its hundred patient seeds:
one fruit, many trees.
haiku
Wordplay
- What did the shy tropical fruit finally say? 'I guava confession to make.'
What it teaches
The guava hides its sweetness behind a plain green skin - ripeness rarely advertises.
Quick facts
What does GUAVA mean?
A sweet tropical fruit with pink or white flesh and many small seeds, from a tree native to the Americas.
Is GUAVA a valid word?
Yes — GUAVA is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GUAVA?
GUAVA has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does GUAVA come from?
From Spanish 'guayaba', borrowed from an Arawakan or Taino language of the Caribbean and tropical South America, where the fruit originates.
What can GUAVA teach us?
The guava hides its sweetness behind a plain green skin - ripeness rarely advertises.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.