noun
tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel)
• Syn: ↑genus Pouteria
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sapotaceae, ↑family Sapotaceae, ↑sapodilla family
• Member Meronyms:
↑canistel, ↑canistel tree, ↑Pouteria campechiana nervosa, ↑marmalade tree, ↑mammee, ↑sapote, ↑Pouteria zapota, ↑Calocarpum zapota
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\\pau̇ˈtirēə, püˈt-\ nounUsage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin
: a large genus of chiefly tropical American timber trees (family Sapotaceae) with flower clusters borne in the leaf axils and usually edible fruit
Useful english dictionary. 2012.