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can·is·tel (kăn'ĭ-stĕl')
n. In both senses also called eggfruit.
  1. A tree (Pouteria campechiana), native to Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean and having very sweet oval fruit with a musky odor.
  2. The fruit of this tree.

[American Spanish, from dialectal variant of Spanish canastillo, small basket, from Latin canistellum, diminutive of canistrum, basket. See canister.]




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