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Sapote

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Noun

1. calocarpum zapota, mammee, marmalade tree, pouteria zapota, sapote

tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum

2. mammee, marmalade plum, sapote

brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sapote

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noun
another name for sapota

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Sapote

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noun
1. 
any of several tropical American trees or their fruits
2. 
a. 
marmalade tree
b. 
sapodilla

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sapote

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n.
1.
a. A Mexican and Central American tree (Pouteria sapota) having edible oval fruit with rough brown skin and sweet reddish flesh.
b. The fruit of this tree. Also called mamey sapote, marmalade plum.
2.
a. Any of several other trees of the American tropics that bear sweet edible fruit, especially Casimiroa edulis, having greenish-yellow fruit with whitish flesh, and Diospyros digyna, a persimmon having greenish fruit with dark brown flesh.
b. The fruit of any of these trees.

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