sapote

noun

A Mexican and Central American tree (Pouteria sapota) having edible oval fruit with rough brown skin and sweet reddish flesh.

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The fruit of this tree.

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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.

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The fruit of any of these trees.

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Same as zapote, which see.

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

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brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

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