Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the characters of Sapota; belonging or pertaining to the Sapotaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotaceæ) of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Belonging to the
Sapotaceae family .
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Examples
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The Talpa region has long been renowned for its chicle; pre-Columbian Indians discovered that the sticky latex of the sapotaceous trees native to this area could be used to make hard, rubber-like balls.
Tired of Puerto Vallarta? Try the mountains: the road to San Sebastián 2004
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The Talpa region has long been renowned for its chicle; pre-Columbian Indians discovered that the sticky latex of the sapotaceous trees native to this area could be used to make hard, rubber-like balls.
Tired of Puerto Vallarta? Try the mountains: the road to San Sebastián 2004
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The Talpa region has long been renowned for its chicle; pre-Columbian Indians discovered that the sticky latex of the sapotaceous trees native to this area could be used to make hard, rubber-like balls.
Tired of Puerto Vallarta? Try the mountains: the road to San Sebastián 2004
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The Talpa region has long been renowned for its chicle; pre-Columbian Indians discovered that the sticky latex of the sapotaceous trees native to this area could be used to make hard, rubber-like balls.
Tired of Puerto Vallarta? Try the mountains: the road to San Sebastián 2004
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-- This sapotaceous plant is cultivated for its fruit, which is called marmalade, on account of its containing a thick agreeably flavored pulp, bearing some resemblance in appearance and taste to quince marmalade.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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This sapotaceous plant attains a great size in Guiana and affords a dense, close-grained, valuable timber.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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Archipelago, the native _habitat_ of the sapotaceous tree that yields the gutta percha.
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