The edible fruit of this plant, which has an orange or red skin when ripe, orange pulp which turns floury when cooked, and a single large seed.
Origin
Borrowed from Trinidadian Creole English peewa, peewah, from Spanish pijguao , possibly from Quechua. The English word is cognate with Spanish pifá, pivá , pijuayo .
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