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‖ sapota|səˈpəʊtə|
Forms: 6–9 sapote, 7 sapotte; 7 supota, supporter, sappota, 9 zapota, 8– sapota.
[repr. Sp. and Pg. zapote (whence F. sapote), a. Mexican zapotl, çapotl. The form now in use is from mod. Latin.]
a. The tree Achras Sapota and its fruit; = sapodilla 1, 2; (see also quot. 1887). As mod.L., a genus, the type of the Sapotaceæ, now referred to Achras.
white sapota, the greenish yellow fruit of the Mexican tree Casimiroa edulis (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). mammee-sapota, see mammee 3.
c1560Tomson in Hakluyt's Voy. (1600) III. 454 There are many goodly fruits in that Countrey, whereof we haue none such, as Plantanos, Guyaues, Sapotes, Tunas. 1648Gage West. Ind. 42 There we had..the Plantin, Sapotte, Chicosapotte, Pine-fruit, and all other fruits that were to be found in Mexico. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 326 Sapota, Achras. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 75 The sapotes are round, about two inches in circumference. 1811Pinkerton Mod. Geog., West Indies (abr., ed. 3) 666 The sapota or sapadilla. 1866Mary B. Clarke Mosses fr. Rolling Stone 120 Zapotas, rough and brown. 1887Brigham Guatemala 131 There is no little confusion in the nomenclature of the sapotes or sapodillas. What is usually called a sapote in Guatemala does not belong to the genus Sapota, but to an allied genus, Lucuma, and is known in the W. Indies as the mammee-apple... The sapoton or big sapote does not even belong to the Sapota family, but is a Pachira.
b. attrib., as sapota plum, sapota wood.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 68/2 Achras or Sapota Plum. 1844Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VII. 94/1 The material of the beams of the doors was sapote wood. a1881L. H. Morgan Contrib. Amer. Ethnol. 273 They used sapote wood usually for lintels. |