tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind
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huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts
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Durian \Du"ri*an\, or Durion \Du"ri*on\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts.
Durio \Du"ri*o\, n. [NL., fr. Malay d?ri thorn.] (Bot.) A fruit tree ({Durio zibethinus}, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the {durian}.
Cole never seems to really date." Long banned from most hotels, hospitals and commercial airliners in Southeast Asia, the redoubtable durian is now barred from Singapore's new subway, the Mass Rapid Transport system.
The durian is back in season and hawkers are thinking up special names and twisting arms to sell a bumper crop of the sweet but malodorous fruit.