Meaning

9 senses
  1. The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.

  2. Sapotaceae species:

    Manilkara zapota, sapodilla, naseberry, native to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, and possibly El Salvador.

  3. Pouteria campechiana, yellow sapote, native to Mexico and Central America.

  4. Pouteria sapota, mamey sapote, from southern Mexico to northern South America.

  5. Pouteria viridis, green sapote, native to lowland southern Mexico.

  6. Ebenaceae species:

    Diospyros digyna, black sapote, from eastern Mexico south to Colombia.

  7. Diospyros texana, chapote, is native to the lower Rio Grande valley region in Texas and Mexico.

  8. The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.

    Rutaceae species

  9. Rutaceae species:

    Casimiroa edulis, white sapote, native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.

More definitions
  • brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
  • tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum

Translations

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By meaning 1
fruit of various South American trees:

Origin

Borrowed from Spanish zapote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *ȼapo-tl. Doublet

Borrowed from Spanish zapote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *ȼapo-tl. Doublet of chapote.

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Forms

plural: sapotes
Singularsapote
Pluralsapotes

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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