araca /ɑɹəˈsɑ/ noun1 •Any of a number of Brazilian trees or the pear-like, apple-shaped guava fruits they bear: Psidium cattleyanum syn. Psidium araca; (cherry guava, strawberry guava), or another Psidium (guava), or Mosiera guineensis (Brazilian guave), or Eugenia stipitata.Of the Araca trees are great abundance, of many sorts; the fruit is certaine small Peares, […] — 1625 formsaracas