Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tree Achras Sapota, or its fruit. See Achras, bully-tree, chicle-gum, and sapodilla.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A tropical fruit. See
sapodilla .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
sapodilla fruit.
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Examples
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Breakfast includes an inviting array of Jamaican fruits: jack fruit, sweet sop (looks like a sea creature), naseberry (looks like a fig) and five varieties of mango.
Dwight Brown: Good Reasons to Come Back to Jamaican Hotels & Resorts 2010
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Breakfast includes an inviting array of Jamaican fruits: jack fruit, sweet sop (looks like a sea creature), naseberry (looks like a fig) and five varieties of mango.
Dwight Brown: Good Reasons to Come Back to Jamaican Hotels & Resorts 2010
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"Let me see," answered Mrs. Owen; "I believe the very first thing we did was to go to the refrigerator, or great zinc-lined box where the ice was kept, and take out some fruit – bananas or a pine-apple, or perhaps a naseberry (a delicious sort of plum).
A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters Mary Anne 1871
ruzuzu commented on the word naseberry
See sapodilla. But for more about the bats that eat them, see stenoderma.
August 8, 2011