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sapote

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Editorial note

Edited to add: White Sapote and Avocado are about as close to native fruit trees as you can get in California.

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Quick take

The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.

noun

Sapotaceae species:

noun

Manilkara zapota, sapodilla, naseberry, native to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, and possibly El Salvador.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for sapote.

Example sentences

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Edited to add: White Sapote and Avocado are about as close to native fruit trees as you can get in California.

2

We have a couple of black sapote trees in our yard; sounds similar.

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My grandma has a Sapote tree in San Diego and it is incredible!

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Indeed you eat it when it feels rotten, except black sapote isn’t particularly sweet, at least the very few ones I tried in Oaxaca.

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I wondered, since quandong sounds like an Aboriginal word, whether it might be similar to what happened with the word 'sapote' in South American fruits.

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I have had a white Sapote in the ground for years and it's still less than 1m tall:/ don't know if it will ever fruit..

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I have heard that it means 'soft fruit' and hardly any of them are even related species!: White Sapote (ice-cream fruit, it's amazing, related to citrus) Black Sapote: might not quite live up to the name chocolate-pudding-fruit, but a perfectly ripe one is still delightful imo, related to persimmon) I haven't tried Mamey Sapote yet or any others..

Quote examples

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If you google for "sapote" you'll find some results which naively attempt to give a latin classification to the unqualified "sapote".

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European colonists made the mistake of adopting the word "sapote" for various different tree species ("what's this called?"; "sapote"), which has led to a lot of subsequent misunderstanding.

Proper noun examples

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I believe they were looking only at plants native to California, and from a quick search it appears at White Sapote's and Guava's closest native populations are in eastern Mexico.

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And they talk about drought tolerance, but I haven't seen a single mention of them planting White Sapote, a fruit perfectly adapted to the local climate, delicious, and very productive (not to mention, rare).

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use sapote in a sentence?

Edited to add: White Sapote and Avocado are about as close to native fruit trees as you can get in California.

What does sapote mean?

The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.

What part of speech is sapote?

sapote is commonly used as noun.