sapota
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sapota
(səˈpəʊtə) orsapote
n
1. (Plants) (in tropical America) any of various different fruits
2. (Plants) another name for sapodilla
[C16: from Spanish zapote, from Nahuatl tsapotl; see sapodilla]
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Noun | 1. | sapota - tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp 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 |
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