white sapote

American  

noun

1. a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.

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Example Sentences

The first thing he planted here was a white sapote tree, which has shot up several feet under his care.

From Los Angeles Times

Besides plums, members will have figs, apricots, peaches, pears, persimmons, mulberries, jujubes, white sapote, cherimoya and paw-paws.

From Los Angeles Times

The film shows Mr. Pullman toiling in his orchard and later in his kitchen as he gleefully concocts white sapote ice cream: “Get ready to have a taste sensation that I know you have never had before, chez Bill.”

From New York Times