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Large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit
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sapodilla
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras [syn: sapodilla tree , Manilkara zapota , Achras zapota ] tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp [syn: sapodilla ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Manilkara zapota'', a long-lived evergreen tree native to the New World tropics. 2 The fruit from the sapodilla tree. The fruit is 4-8 cm in diameter, has a fuzzy brown skin with earthy brown flesh.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sapodilla \Sap`o*dil"la\, n. [Sp. zapote, sapotillo, zapotillo, Mexican cochit-zapotl. Cf. Sapota .] (Bot.) A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree ( Achras Sapota ); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum. [Written also sapadillo , sappadillo , sappodilla ...
Usage examples of sapodilla.
Like the durian, the sapodilla plum grows all too slowly for my precipitate tastes, though I console myself plenteously with mangoes.
Chocolate trees, Cohuna palm trees, hog plum trees, bayal trees, trees with black orchids (the Belizean national flower), mahogany trees, cedar trees, red gum-bolino trees, fiddlewood trees, sapodilla trees.