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Sapota

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• Sapotaceous

  adjective 1. belonging to the Sapotaceae, the sapodilla family of plants. adjective 1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Sapotaceae, a family of leathery-leaved tropical plants: includes the gutta-percha and balata trees, sapodilla, and shea

• Sapote

  noun 1. Also called marmalade tree. a tree, Pouteria sapota, of the sapodilla family, native to Mexico and Central America, having large leaves and sweet, edible fruit. 2. the fruit of this tree.

• Sapour

  noun 1. the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste; savor; flavor. noun 1. (rare) the quality in a substance that is perceived by the sense of taste; flavour

• Sappanwood

  noun 1. a dyewood yielding a red color, produced by a small, East Indian tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of the legume family. 2. the tree itself. noun 1. a small leguminous tree, Caesalpinia sappan, of S Asia producing wood that yields a red dye 2. the wood of this tree

• Sapped

  noun 1. the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant. 2. any vital body fluid. 3. energy; vitality. 4. sapwood. 5. Slang. a fool; dupe. 6. Metallurgy. soft metal at the core of a bar of blister steel. verb (used with object), sapped, sapping. 7. to drain the sap […]

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