A tropical fruit with pink or white flesh, sweet taste, and many small seeds, native to Central and South America.
From Spanish guayaba, derived from Arawakan (Caribbean indigenous language) guayabo. The word traveled from the Caribbean islands to Spanish explorers and eventually into English through Spanish colonial trade routes.
The guava fruit was so nutritious and easy to grow that Spanish conquistadors brought it across the Atlantic, and it became essential to slave ship diets during the transatlantic slave trade—making it a accidental hero of botanical history.
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