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Durian

noun

Tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind. Synonyms: durian tree, Durio zibethinus, durion.

Huge fruit native to southeastern Asia 'smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts.

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"Durian" Quotes from Famous Books

... plenty of attention to the fruit pressed upon him by the doctor's daughter. Now it was a deliciously-flavoured choice banana with a deep orange skin, now a mangosteen, and then a portion of a great durian, a scrap or two of which he ate ...

— The Rajah of Dah • George Manville Fenn

... some excursion after edible birds'-nests or bees'-wax, and there only remained in the house two or three old men and women with a lot of children. The mountain or hill was close by, covered with a complete forest of fruit-trees, among which the Durian and Mangusteen were very abundant; but the fruit was not yet quite ripe, except a little here and there. I spent a week at this place, going out everyday in various directions about the mountain, accompanied by a ...

— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... generally tender in the middle, to make up for being so firm outside, even as the Durian fruit is. Captain Southcombe had walked the poop-deck of the Gwalior many a time, in the cool of the night, with Erle Twemlow for his companion, and had taken a very warm liking to him. So that when the survivors of the regiment were landed at Portsmouth, this brave sailor travelled at ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

Words linked to "Durian" : genus Durio, edible fruit, Durio, durion, fruit tree, durian tree, Durio zibethinus