sapote

1. 1.

   tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum

   Synonymsmarmalade treemammeePouteria zapotaCalocarpum zapota

   Broadertree

   Part ofPouteria
2. 2.

   brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

   Synonymsmammeemarmalade plum

   Broaderedible fruit

   Part ofmarmalade tree

Other forms of sapote

plural

sapotes·

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 sapote

What does sapote mean?

sapote means "tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sapote?

sapote has 2 syllables: sa-pote. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for sapote?

Close synonyms include marmalade tree, mammee, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota, mammee. 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 sapote a common word?

sapote is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.