durion

English

Noun

durion (plural durions)

1. Alternative spelling of durian.
   • 1883, “More about the durion”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas, volume 10, part 1:

     Poor monkeys! how I pity them. The only durions they can eat are the overripe ones, which fall from the trees and burst open.

   • 2022, Apologetical Aesthetics, Wipf and Stock Publishers:

     And if someone appeared claiming to love the smell of the durion fruit, whose odor is so off-putting that it's banned on Singapore's mass transit system, we would not say that olfactory judgments are therefore purely relative.

   • 2022, Barrington Nixon, Fruits Of The Alphabet: ABC fruit learning, Flash Page Fruit Learning, Fruits And Letters, A-Z Fruit Learning, Alphabet Flash Page, Barrington Nixon:

     The Durion is a large, spiky fruit that is often used in Asian cuisine.

References

• “durion”, in Collins English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Drouin, UNODIR, diuron