Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Mexican and Central American tree (Pouteria sapota) having edible oval fruit with rough brown skin and sweet reddish flesh.
- noun The fruit of this tree.
- noun 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.
- noun The fruit of any of these trees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
zapote , which see.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The soft, edible
fruit of various unrelatedSouth American trees, including thesapodilla .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
- noun tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Native to central Mexico, the white sapote is more elongated than the other sapotes, shaped more like a pear, with green skin and white to yellowish white, sweet creamy pulp.
Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit 2007
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Native to central Mexico, the white sapote is more elongated than the other sapotes, shaped more like a pear, with green skin and white to yellowish white, sweet creamy pulp.
Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit 2007
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The white sapote is more elongated than the other sapotes, with green skin and white to yellowish white, sweet creamy pulp.
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He is a tobacco seller door-to-door and his wife, Mrs. Lai Heng Lort, is a brown 'sapote' (fruit) seller and besides this, she is a pig breeder as well.
Kiva Loans 2010
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She grows black sapote, a dark fruit with soft pulp that can be eaten like chocolate pudding.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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The forests here were also carefully managed in other ways, Oyuela-Caycedo believes, with the Indians planting semi-domesticated trees that bore all manner of fruit, such as macambo, sapote and jungle avocados.
Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable 2010
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So Mr. Kim helped five of his best urban farmers get licensed, and now they provide him with a bounty including blood oranges, heirloom Italian chicory and a fruit called black sapote.
The Rise of the Lazy Locavore Katy McLaughlin 2010
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By combining chocolate with herbs, flowers, honey, chilies, and sapote pits, they created flavors and effects that made even our modern uses for chocolate pale in comparison.
Christina Pirello: Chocolate: Truly The Food Of The Gods 2009
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The sapote (or other tropical hardwood) that was added as an outside beam will probably outlast the concrete. hopalog
Wood 2007
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In my 100 year old house I have fir, cedro and sapote.
Wood 2007
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