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</p><p><b>uh-NO-nuh</b> -- Latinized form of the American Indian <i>taino</i>, vernacular name for cherimoya
<b>skwa-MO-suh</b> -- scaly
</p><p><b>commonly known as</b>: custard apple (in India), sugar apple, sweetsop • <b>Assamese</b>: আতলচ-কঁঠাল aatloch kothal • <b>Bengali</b>: আতা ata, শরিকা shorifa • <b>Gujarati</b>: સીતાફળ sitaphal • <b>Hindi</b>: आत, आता or अता ata, बहुवीज bahu-vij, मुक्ताफल muktaphal, सीताफल sitaphal • <b>Kannada</b>: ಸೀತಾಫಲ seetaphala • <b>Konkani</b>: सीताफल siitaaphala • <b>Malayalam</b>: ശീടാഫലം seethapazham • <b>Manipuri</b>: সীতাফল sitaphal • <b>Marathi</b>: आत ata, मुक्ताफल muktaphala, शिताफळ or सिताफळ sitaphala • <b>Nepali</b>: आँट् aunt • <b>Oriya</b>: sitaphalo • <b>Persian</b>: شريفه sharifa • <b>Punjabi</b>: ਸ਼ਰੀਫਾ sharifa, ਸੀਤਾ ਫਲ sita phal • <b>Sanskrit</b>: आतृप्यम् atrupyum, बहुबीजम् bahubijam, मुक्ताफलम् muktaphalam, सीताफलम् sitaphalam • <b>Tamil</b>: ஆத்தா atta, சீத்தா citta • <b>Telugu</b>: సీతాఫలము sita-phalamu • <b>Urdu</b>: آتا ata, شريفه sharifa
</p><p><b>Distribution</b>: widely cultivated in tropics; probable origin West Indies
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<b>References</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sugar%20Apple.html">Flowers of India</a> • <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar-apple">Wikipedia</a> • <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/sugar_apple.html">Purdue University</a> • <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?3503">NPGS / GRIN</a> • <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/">DDSA</a>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/91314344@N00">Dinesh Valke</a> from Thane, India
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