Apple vs. Guava — What's the Difference?

An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus domestica). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus.

Guava () is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. Psidium guajava (common guava, lemon guava) is a small tree in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America.

The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin green or red skin and crisp flesh.

An edible, pale orange tropical fruit with pink juicy flesh and a strong sweet aroma.

The tree bearing apples, with hard pale timber that is used in carpentry and to smoke food.

The small tropical American tree which bears guavas.

A cultivated deciduous tree (Malus domestica or M. pumila) in the rose family, native to Eurasia and having alternate simple leaves and white or pink flowers.

Any of various tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Psidium, especially P. guajava, widely cultivated for its edible fruit, having greenish skin and sweet white or pink flesh.

The firm, edible, usually rounded fruit of this tree.

The fruit of this plant.

Any of several other plants, especially those with fruits suggestive of the apple, such as the crabapple or custard apple.

A tropical tree or shrub of the myrtle family, Psidium guajava.

The fruit of any of these plants.

Its yellowish tropical fruit, 1¼ to 2 inches, globular or pear-shaped with thin, yellow, green or brown skin, is often made into jams and jellies. The meat is yellowish or pale green to pink in color.

A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.

A medium reddish-pink colour, like that of guava flesh (also called guava pink).

Any fruit or vegetable, or any other thing produced by a plant such as a gall or cone, especially if produced by a tree and similar to the fruit of Malus domestica; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.

A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum, or red guava. The fruit or berry is shaped like a pomegranate, but is much smaller. It is somewhat astringent, but makes a delicious jelly.

Something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica, such as a globe, ball, or breast.

Small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit

The ball in baseball.

Small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit

(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.

Tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies

The Adam's apple.

(Christianity) The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.

A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.

The wood of the apple tree.

Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.

A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

An assist.

(slang) A CB radio enthusiast.

(ambitransitive) To make or become apple-like.

(obsolete) To form buds, bulbs, or fruit.

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

Fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

Native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits