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noun
The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
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noun
The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Sapotaceae species:
Manilkara zapota, sapodilla, naseberry, native to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, and possibly El Salvador.
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noun
The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Sapotaceae species:
Pouteria campechiana, yellow sapote, native to Mexico and Central America.
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noun
The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Sapotaceae species:
Pouteria sapota, mamey sapote, from southern Mexico to northern South America.
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noun
The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Sapotaceae species:
Pouteria viridis, green sapote, native to lowland southern Mexico.
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noun
The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Ebenaceae species:
Diospyros digyna, black sapote, from eastern Mexico south to Colombia.
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noun
The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Ebenaceae species:
Diospyros texana, chapote, is native to the lower Rio Grande valley region in Texas and Mexico.
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noun
The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Rutaceae species
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noun
The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
Rutaceae species:
Casimiroa edulis, white sapote, native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.
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noun
brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mammee, marmalade plum
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Broader terms: edible fruit
noun
tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: marmalade tree, mammee, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota
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Broader terms: tree
History
Borrowed from Spanish zapote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *ȼapo-tl. Doublet of chapote.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
