WordWeb Online

1. Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
   - marmalade tree, mammee, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota
    
2. Brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
   - mammee, marmalade plum

Derived forms: sapotes

Type of: edible fruit, tree

Part of: genus Pouteria, Pouteria

Encyclopedia: Sapote