HyperDic: pouteria

English > 1 sense of the word Pouteria:
NOUNplantPouteria, genus Pouteriatropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel)
English > Pouteria: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningTropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel).
Synonymgenus Pouteria
Member ofSapotaceae, family Sapotaceae, sapodilla familyTropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit
Memberscanistel, canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosaTropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit
marmalade tree, mammee, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapotaTropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit
Broaderdicot genus, magnoliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanishgenus pouteria, pouteria
Catalangenus pouteria, pouteria

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