Meaning
A large, spiny, dark-green fruit with soft, white, tangy-sweet, fibrous pulp, most famously blended into a thick, creamy juice — 'soursop juice' — that is a Jamaican favourite. Beyond the fruit, the leaves are boiled into a bush tea prized in folk medicine as a calming, sleep-inducing remedy and general tonic, widely taken in the evening to settle the nerves. Both the fruit and its leaf are much loved and much used, and belief in the plant's healthful, even medicinal, power runs deep across the island.
Examples
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Blend di soursop wid milk fi a sweet juice.
Blend the soursop with milk for a sweet juice.
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Soursop leaf tea good fi di nerves.
Soursop leaf tea is good for the nerves.
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Di soursop ripe an soft now.
The soursop is ripe and soft now.
Origin
Named against 'sweetsop' (its small sweet cousin); the large tart 'soursop' (guanábana) of the Annona family.
How it’s used
Chiefly made into juice; the leaf tea is a folk remedy. Related to sweetsop. See [[sweetsop]].