sa·po·te

(sə-pō′tē, -tā)

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.

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.

[Spanish zapota, from Nahuatl tzapotl.]

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Noun	1.	sapote - tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum Calocarpum zapota, mammee, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota marmalade plum, sapote, mammee - brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet genus Pouteria, Pouteria - tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel) tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
	2.	sapote - brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet marmalade plum, mammee edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh 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

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