pitombaEtymologyBorrowed from Portuguese pitomba, from Old Tupi pitomba.nounTalisia esculenta, a South American tree.The sweetish-sour brown-skinned fruit of Talisia esculenta.“Lucretia had made it a point not to eat anything she hadn't tasted first in Louisiana, believing she could be poisoned by the unfamiliar milky goiabas, pungent jambos, prickly graviolas, or acidy pitombas.”Eugenia luschnathiana, an evergreen shrub of Brazil.The globose orange-yellow berry of Eugenia luschnathiana.