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SAPODILLA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp

Synonyms:

sapodilla; sapodilla plum; sapota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sapodilla" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("sapodilla" is a part of...):

Achras zapota; Manilkara zapota; sapodilla; sapodilla tree (large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras)

Sense 2

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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sapodilla" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "sapodilla"):

sapodilla; sapodilla plum; sapota (tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp)

Holonyms ("sapodilla" is a part of...):

genus Manilkara; Manilkara (genus of large evergreen trees with milky latex; pantropical)

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