NOUN | plant | mammee, marmalade tree, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota | tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit |
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plant | mammee, mammee apple, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana | tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | |
food | mammee, mamey, mammee apple | globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | |
food | mammee, sapote, marmalade plum | brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet |
Meaning | Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum. | |
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Synonyms | marmalade tree, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota | |
Member of | Pouteria, genus Pouteria | Tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel) |
Parts | sapote, mammee, marmalade plum | brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet |
Broader | tree | A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown |
Meaning | Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind. | |
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Synonyms | mammee apple, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana | |
Member of | Mammea, genus Mammea | American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit |
Parts | mamey, mammee, mammee apple | globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh |
Broader | fruit tree | Tree bearing edible fruit |
Spanish | mamey |
Meaning | globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh. | |
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Synonyms | mamey, mammee apple | |
Part of | mammee apple, mammee, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana | Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind |
Broader | edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
Meaning | brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet. | |
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Synonyms | sapote, marmalade plum | |
Part of | marmalade tree, mammee, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota | Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit |
Broader | edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
Spanish | sapote | |
Catalan | acres |
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