A large, heart-shaped variety of custard apple or tropical fruit with sweet, creamy flesh.
Compound of 'cow' plus 'heart', so called because the fruit is large and heart-shaped, suggesting the size and shape of a bovine heart. The name emphasizes the fruit's distinctive appearance.
Fruits named by comparing them to animal organs—cowheart, sweetbread, kidney bean—show how older cultures used anatomy as the vocabulary for understanding shapes and sizes in nature.
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