A tropical tree native to South America that produces pods containing edible seeds, often eaten as a nutritious snack.
From Spanish and Portuguese colonial languages, likely derived from indigenous Taíno or Arawakan languages of the Caribbean and South America, where the tree was originally cultivated.
Many words we use for tropical foods came from Indigenous peoples who had cultivated and named these plants for centuries before Europeans arrived—'guaba' is a linguistic echo of pre-Columbian knowledge.
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