Definitions
A large Southeast Asian fruit known for its strong smell and rich flesh.
Word origin
From Malay durian, ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”). Doublet of iwi, from Māori.
Used in a sentence
“The dessert I thoroughly enjoyed, for the various fruits of Singapore are delicious. One of them, the "durion," exhales a most noxious perfume, but is pleasant to the palate.”
“Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.”
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01“Pungent fruit”6 letters
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