noun
- a large evergreen tree, Manilkara zapota, of tropical America, bearing an edible fruit and yielding chicle.Compare sapodilla family.
- Also called sapodilla plum. the fruit itself.
noun
- a large tropical American evergreen tree, Achras zapota, the latex of which yields chicle
- Also called: sapodilla plum the edible brown rough-skinned fruit of this tree, which has a sweet yellowish pulp