Akademik

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

2. brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

/seuh poh"tee, -tay/, n.

1. Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit.

2. the fruit of this tree.

Also, sapota. Also called mammee, marmalade plum.

[1550-60; AmerSp; see SAPOTA]

variant of sapota.