English > Pouteria: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel). |
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| Synonym | genus Pouteria |
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| Member of | Sapotaceae, family Sapotaceae, sapodilla family | Tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit |
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| Members | canistel, canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa | Tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit |
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| marmalade tree, mammee, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota | Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | genus pouteria, pouteria |
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| Catalan | genus pouteria, pouteria |
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