sapote

A Mexican and Central American tree (Pouteria sapota) having edible oval fruit with rough brown skin and sweet reddish flesh.

The fruit of this tree.

Any of several other trees of the American tropics that bear sweet edible fruit, especially Casimiroa edulis, having greenish-yellow fruit with whitish flesh, and Diospyros digyna, a persimmon having greenish fruit with dark brown flesh.

The fruit of any of these trees.

Same as zapote, which see.

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

brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

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