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noun tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
noun brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
originBorrowed from Spanish zapote, from a Nahuan language, from Proto-Nahuan *ȼapo-tl. Doublet of chapote.
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