Langsat
/ˈlɑŋ.sɑt/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The tree Lansium domesticum.
- 2 a small fruit with fleshy pulp; tastes like a combination of grape and grapefruit. wordnet
- 3 A small, whitish-brown fruit of Southeast Asia, from the tree Lansium domesticum, with fleshy pulp and subacid taste.
"He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”"
- 4 East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry wordnet
Example
More examples"He describes one variety of the stinking durian fruit as tasting like “undercooked peanut butter-mint omelets in body-odor sauce”; langsats are “tangy-sweet detonations of citric perfection”; biting into a monkey tamarind is “like eating cloud.”"
Etymology
From Malay langsat.