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Sweet Sop

the Anona squamosa, a large shrub or tree of stunted irregular growth with spreading branches, indigenous in the West Indies and much cultivated in other tropical countries. It is completely domesticated over a great part of India. The fruit is about the size of an orange, of a glaucous yellowish-green color, covered with projecting scales; pulp white with a tinge of yellow, very sweet. The acrid seeds and the leaves are insecticide.

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