Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit

• Brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
• In some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
• Marmalade tree

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n. tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum [syn: marmalade tree , mammee , Pouteria zapota , Calocarpum zapota ] brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet ...

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n. The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.

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Sapote (from Nahuatl tzapotl ) is a term for a soft, edible fruit . The word is incorporated into the common names of several unrelated fruit-bearing plants native to Mexico , Central America and northern parts of South America . Some but not all sapotes ...