SAPOTE
Sapote
Sapote is a term for a soft, edible fruit. The word is incorporated into the common names of several unrelated fruit-bearing plants native to Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Sapote
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sapote
Noun
- The soft, edible fruit of various South American trees, including the sapodilla.
- Sapotaceae species:
- Manilkara zapota, sapodilla, naseberry, native to Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, and possibly El Salvador.
- , yellow sapote, native to Mexico and Central America.
- Pouteria sapota, mamey sapote, from southern Mexico to northern South America.
- , green sapote, native to lowland southern Mexico.
- Ebenaceae species:
- , black sapote, from eastern Mexico south to Colombia.
- , chapote, is native to the lower Rio Grande valley region in Texas and Mexico.
- Rutaceae species:
- , white sapote, native to northern and central Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala.
- Sapotaceae species:
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