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SAPODILLA TREE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras
Synonyms:
Achras zapota; Manilkara zapota; sapodilla; sapodilla tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sapodilla tree" is a kind of...):
fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)
Meronyms (parts of "sapodilla tree"):
sapodilla; sapodilla plum; sapota (tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp)
Holonyms ("sapodilla tree" is a part of...):
genus Manilkara; Manilkara (genus of large evergreen trees with milky latex; pantropical)