sapodilla

1. 1.

   large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras

   Synonymssapodilla treeManilkara zapotaAchras zapota

   Broaderfruit tree

   Part ofManilkara
2. 2.

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

   Synonymssapodilla plumsapota

   Broaderedible fruit

Other forms of sapodilla

plural

sapodillas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sapodilla

What does sapodilla mean?

sapodilla means "large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sapodilla?

sapodilla has 4 syllables: sa-po-dil-la. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for sapodilla?

Close synonyms include sapodilla tree, Manilkara zapota, Achras zapota, sapodilla plum, sapota. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sapodilla a common word?

sapodilla is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.