sapota

sa·po·te  (s-pt, -t) or sa·po·ta (-t)

n. In both senses also called marmalade plum.

1. A Mexican and Central American tree (Poulteria sapota) having edible brown oval fruit with very sweet reddish flesh.

2. The fruit of this tree.

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[Spanish zapota, from Nahuatl tzapotl.]

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sapota [səˈpəʊtə]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (in tropical America) any of various different fruits

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) another name for sapodilla

[from Spanish zapote, from Nahuatl tsapotl; see sapodilla]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

sapota - tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp sapodilla plum, sapodilla edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh Achras zapota, Manilkara zapota, sapodilla, sapodilla tree - large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras