A grower or cultivator of chirimoya trees, or a merchant who trades in chirimoyas.
Spanish chirimoyer, formed by adding the occupational suffix -er/-ero to chirimoya. This occupational naming pattern shows how Spanish colonial commerce created new words for people involved in exotic fruit cultivation and trade.
In colonial Spanish America, naming someone a chirimoyer was like saying they specialized in exotic luxury crops—it was a marker of their niche trade in colonial economies where unusual tropical fruits commanded premium prices!
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