sapotan.
/səˈpəʊtə/ a. The tree Achras Sapota and its fruit; = sapodilla n. 1, 2; (see also quot. 1887). As modern Latin, a genus, the type of the Sapotaceæ, now referred to Achras. white sapota n. the greenish yellow fruit of the Mexican tree Casimiroa edulis ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). mammee-sapota n. see mammee n. Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun]
tamarind1539
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turpentine1562
mango1582
mammee1587
durian1588
lychee1588
sapota1589
fritter1591
mangosteen1598
custard apple1648
longan1655
mammee sapota1657
mammee apple1683
breadfruit1697
coco-plum1699
rambutan1707
pawpaw1709
locust bean1731
sapodilla1750
cherimoya1758
wild lime1767
Otaheite apple1777
narra1779
langsat1783
rose apple1790
cinnamon apple1796
sapota plum1797
bhindi1809
salak1820
gingerbread plum1824
geebung1827
loquat1829
sapodilla plum1830
sage-apple1832
kangaroo-apple1834
karaka-fruit1834
quandong1836
mombin1837
terap1839
zapote1842
tamarind plum1846
prairie pea1848
Barbados-cherry1858
kei-apple1859
Natal plum1859
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
Sierra Leone peach1866
Turkey fig1866
marula1877
scarlet banana1885
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
pear apple1898
ume1918
pepino1922
Chinese gooseberry1925
num-num1926
acerola1954
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > of South America or West Indies > sapodilla
sapota1589
sapodilla1750
sapota plum1797
sapodilla plum1830
zapote1842
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of tropical America > sapodilla-tree
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mesple1978
1589 R. Tomson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 587 There are many goodly fruites in that Countrey, whereof wee haue none such, as Plantanos, Guyaues, Sapotes, Tunes.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 42 There we had..the Plantin, Sapotte, Chicosapotte, Pine-fruit, and all other fruits that were to be found in Mexico.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 326 Sapota, Achras.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 75 The sapotes are round, about two inches in circumference.
1811 J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr.: W. Indies (abr., ed. 3) 666 The sapota or sapadilla.
1866 M. B. Clarke Mosses from Rolling Stone 120 Zapotas, rough and brown.
1887 W. T. Brigham 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. attributive, as sapota plum, sapota wood.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > other fruits > [noun]
tamarind1539
zizypha1546
guava1555
tuna1555
turpentine1562
mango1582
mammee1587
durian1588
lychee1588
sapota1589
fritter1591
mangosteen1598
custard apple1648
longan1655
mammee sapota1657
mammee apple1683
breadfruit1697
coco-plum1699
rambutan1707
pawpaw1709
locust bean1731
sapodilla1750
cherimoya1758
wild lime1767
Otaheite apple1777
narra1779
langsat1783
rose apple1790
cinnamon apple1796
sapota plum1797
bhindi1809
salak1820
gingerbread plum1824
geebung1827
loquat1829
sapodilla plum1830
sage-apple1832
kangaroo-apple1834
karaka-fruit1834
quandong1836
mombin1837
terap1839
zapote1842
tamarind plum1846
prairie pea1848
Barbados-cherry1858
kei-apple1859
Natal plum1859
bullock's heart1866
guava-apple1866
Sierra Leone peach1866
Turkey fig1866
marula1877
scarlet banana1885
Suriname cherry1895
feijoa1898
pear apple1898
ume1918
pepino1922
Chinese gooseberry1925
num-num1926
acerola1954
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > of South America or West Indies > sapodilla
sapota1589
sapodilla1750
sapota plum1797
sapodilla plum1830
zapote1842
1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 68/2 Achras or Sapota Plum.
1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 94/1 The material of the beams of the doors was sapote wood.
a1881 L. H. Morgan Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol. 273 They used sapote wood usually for lintels.
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