English > family Sapotaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit. |
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| Synonyms | Sapotaceae, sapodilla family |
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| Member of | Ebenales, order Ebenales | Trees or shrubs of the families ... / families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae |
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| Members | Achras, genus Achras | Tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit |
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| Bumelia, genus Bumelia | deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex |
| Calocarpum, genus Calocarpum | A genus of tropical American trees of the family Sapotaceae |
| Chrysophyllum, genus Chrysophyllum | Tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs |
| Manilkara, genus Manilkara | genus of large evergreen trees with milky latex |
| Palaquium, genus Palaquium | large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves |
| Payena, genus Payena | genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha |
| Pouteria, genus Pouteria | Tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel) |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | sapotáceas |
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