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Answer for the clue "Evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides ", 7 letters:
caimito

Word definitions for caimito in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lucuma \Lu*cu"ma\, n. (Bot.) An American genus of sapotaceous trees bearing sweet and edible fruits. Note: Lucuma mammosum is called natural marmalade in the West Indies; Lucuma Caimito , of Peru, furnishes a delicious fruit called lucuma and caimito .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A tropical tree of the family Sapotaceae, and its fruit, the star fruit.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Caimito may refer to: Caimito or Chrysophyllum cainito , a tropical fruit also known as star apple Caimito, Sucre , a town in Colombia Caimito, Cuba , a town in Artemisa Province (before 2011 in Havana Province) Caimito, Panama

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides [syn: star apple , Chrysophyllum cainito ]

Usage examples of caimito.

Whose surveyors and engineers are at this very moment boring for soil samples a thousand feet underneath the estuary of the Caimito River?