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means A sweetsop is the sugar apple — a knobby-skinned tropical fruit with soft, custardy, segmented white flesh that tastes like a cross between banana, pineapple, and pure sugar.

from The name is a straightforward English compound: 'sweet' plus 'sop,' an old word for anything soft and mushy enough to be dipped or sopped up — think 'sop' as in sopping bread in milk. Early English-speaking colonists in the Caribbean and Central America applied it to this custardy fruit, pairing it with its cousin the 'soursop,' whose tangier pulp earned the opposite label. Both names ride on that same old 'sop' root rather than any borrowed tropical word — a case of plain descriptive English stuck onto a fruit that had its own older names in Indigenous and Spanish-speaking regions, like 'anón' or 'ates.'