Sapota Definition

səpōtə
noun
Webster's New World

The tropical fruit from the sapodilla tree, Manilkara zapota. The fruit is 4-8 cm in diameter, has a fuzzy brown skin with very sweet earthy-brown flesh.

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Sapote, the similar fruit of various other tropical and semi-tropical trees, such as Pouteria sapota.

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pronoun

(obsolete) A polyphyletic genus of fruit-bearing tropical and semi-tropical trees, the type species of which, sapodilla, is now called Manilkara zapota.

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Other Word Forms of Sapota

Noun

Singular:
sapota
Plural:
sapotas

Origin of Sapota

  • Latinization of Nahuatl tzapocuahuitl (“Manilkara zapota, sapodilla")

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