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sapota

sapota noun: the tropical fruit from the sapodilla tree, Manilkara zapota. The fruit is 4–8 cm in diameter, has a fuzzy brown skin with very sweet earthy-brown flesh.

sapota: the tropical fruit from the sapodilla tree, Manilkara zapota. The fruit is 4–8 cm in diameter, has...
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Noun

sapota (plural sapotas)

  1. The tropical fruit from the sapodilla tree, Manilkara zapota. The fruit is 4–8 cm in diameter, has a fuzzy brown skin with very sweet earthy-brown flesh.
    Synonyms:
    sapodilla
  2. Sapote, the similar fruit of various other tropical and semi-tropical trees, such as Pouteria sapota.

sapota meaning in Tamil and Telugu

sapota in Tamil

சீமை இலுப்பை

sapota in Telugu

fruit
సపోటా sapōṭā

Synonyms of sapota

Forms of sapota

pluralsapotas

Origin of sapota

Latinization of Nahuatl tzapocuahuitl (“Manilkara zapota, sapodilla”)

Questions about sapota

What does sapota mean?
Sapota means the tropical fruit from the sapodilla tree, Manilkara zapota. The fruit is 4–8 cm in diameter, has a fuzzy brown skin with very sweet earthy-brown flesh.
What is sapota in Tamil?
Sapota in Tamil is சீமை இலுப்பை. See Sapota meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sapota?
Sapota is a noun.
What is the plural of sapota?
The plural of sapota is sapotas.

Words near sapota in the dictionary

  1. saporosity
  2. saporous
  3. sapors
  4. saposin
  5. saposins
  6. sapota
  7. sapotaceous
  8. sapotas
  9. sapote
  10. sapotes
  11. sapotilha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sapota (page history and authors); sapota (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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