family Sapotaceae

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family Sapotaceae - tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit sapodilla family, Sapotaceae dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination Ebenales, order Ebenales - trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae Achras, genus Achras - tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit Bumelia, genus Bumelia - deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex Calocarpum, genus Calocarpum - a genus of tropical American trees of the family Sapotaceae Chrysophyllum, genus Chrysophyllum - tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs genus Manilkara, Manilkara - genus of large evergreen trees with milky latex; pantropical genus Palaquium, Palaquium - large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves genus Payena, Payena - genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha genus Pouteria, Pouteria - tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel)