Cus·tard n. A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.
Custard apple Bot., a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (Anona squamosa, Anona reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp.
Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.]
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custard apple
n 1: any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with
soft edible pulp [syn: custard apple tree]
2: the fruit of any of several tropical American trees of the
genus Annona having soft edible pulp