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sappadillo

sappadillo is the archaic form of sapodilla.

Meaning of sapodilla

Noun

sapodilla (plural sapodillas)

  1. A long-lived evergreen tree, Manilkara zapota, native to the New World tropics.
    Synonyms:
    chikoo, naseberry
  2. The edible fruit of this tree.
    • They heard the flight of the bats as they attacked the ripe sapodillas at their feet.1988, Jorge Amado, translated by Gregory Rabassa, Captains of the Sands, Penguin, published 2013, page 45
    Synonyms:
    sapodilla plum

Forms of sappadillo

pluralsappadillos
pluralsappadilloes

Questions about sappadillo

What is sappadillo the archaic form of?
Sappadillo is the archaic form of sapodilla.

Words near sappadillo in the dictionary

  1. sapoviruses
  2. Sapoya
  3. SAPP
  4. Sappaac
  5. Sappada
  6. sappadillo
  7. sappadilloes
  8. sappadillos
  9. Sappadino
  10. sappadu
  11. sappadus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sappadillo (page history and authors); sapodilla (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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