true guava

Questions about true guava

What does true guava mean?

true guava means "small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit".

What is another word for true guava?

Close synonyms include guava, guava bush, Psidium guajava. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is true guava a common word?

true guava is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.