Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An evergreen tree (Manilkara zapota) of Mexico and Central America, having latex that yields chicle and edible fruit with sweet yellow-brown flesh.
- noun The fruit of this plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large tree, Achras Sapota, native in tropical America, cultivated there and in other tropical regions for its fruit, the sapodilla or sapodilla-plum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A tall, evergeen, tropical American tree (
Achras Sapota ); also, its edible fruit, the sapodilla plum. - noun (Bot.) the fruit of
Achras Sapota . It is about the size of an ordinary quince, having a rough, brittle, dull brown rind, the flesh being of a dirty yellowish white color, very soft, and deliciously sweet. Called alsonaseberry . It is eatable only when it begins to be spotted, and is much used in desserts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Manilkara zapota; a long-lived, evergreen tree native to the New World tropics. It is also known as Chickoo (also spelled "Chiku") in South Asia.
- noun The
fruit from the sapodilla tree. The fruit is 4-8 cm in diameter, has a fuzzy brown skin with earthy brown flesh.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp
- noun large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To teach your kids the value of rainforest products, stuff their stockings with Glee Gum's make-your-own-chewing-gum kit, an irresistible mess of sugar, syrup, flavoring, and chicle gum base from Central America's sapodilla trees.
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To teach your kids the value of rainforest products, stuff their stockings with Glee Gum's make-your-own-chewing-gum kit, an irresistible mess of sugar, syrup, flavoring, and chicle gum base from Central America's sapodilla trees.
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* Fruit of the sapodilla tree (Achras sapota); size of a small apple, rough-grained, yellow to greyish pulp.
On Eating Apples 2009
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The players took fistfulls of wet sand to build a little hill to elevate their balls made of gutta percha, a material from the rubbery dried sap of sapodilla trees.
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To teach your kids the value of rainforest products, stuff their stockings with Glee Gum's make-your-own-chewing-gum kit, an irresistible mess of sugar, syrup, flavoring, and chicle gum base from Central America's sapodilla trees.
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Bubble gum used to come from chicle, the latex of the sapodilla tree, also known for its sweet chico fruits.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Bubble gum used to come from chicle, the latex of the sapodilla tree, also known for its sweet chico fruits.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Bubble gum used to come from chicle, the latex of the sapodilla tree, also known for its sweet chico fruits.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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However, the few areas that still contain moist forest assemblages also termed "Tropical Evergreen Forest" are characterized by tall trees reaching up to 30 meters (m), where the dominant species are: Mayan breadnut (Brosimum alicastrum), sapodilla (Manilkara zapota), rosadillo (Celtis monoica), Bursera simaruba, Dendropanax arboreus, and Sideroxylon capiri.
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Oh! the many women with sapodilla skin in the harem of your mind!
Leopold Sedar Senghor greenintegerblog 2008
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