aratiku

aratiku

1. cherimoya

• IPA^(key): /a.ɾa.tiˈku/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ti‧ku

aratiku (unpossessable)

1. A tropical fruit tree native to South America (Annona crassiflora)
2. (loosely) custard apple (any tree in the genus Annona)
3. The fruit of these trees

• Nheengatu: aratikú
• → Portuguese: araticum, araticu (dated)

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “aratiku”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 61, column 1