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词汇 sapodilla
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Definition of sapodilla in English:

sapodilla

noun ˌsapəˈdɪləˌsæpəˈdɪlə
  • 1A large evergreen tropical American tree which has edible fruit and hard durable wood and yields chicle.

    人心果树

    Manilkara zapota, family Sapotaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All the sculptures on display are made of wood of different types: jackfruit wood, sapodilla wood, longan wood and the durable teakwood.
    • It introduces, maintains, characterizes, and evaluates germplasm collections of banana, plantain, sapodilla, mamey sapote, cacao, Garcinia, Annona, and bamboo.
    • The house, erected across four thick branches of a towering sapodilla tree is hidden among its lush, green leaves.
    • The sapodilla tree is notoriously slow growing, but it can reach heights of 60 to 100 feet with a large spread.
    • The genus Madhuca belongs to the same family as the sapodilla, and some species have edible, although poor, fruits.
    1. 1.1 The sweet brownish bristly fruit of the sapodilla.
      人心果(指果实)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Firm sapodillas are unripe and guarantee a nasty, tongue-curling experience for the eater due to a high tannin content.
      • There are zapotes, the sapodilla plums from which the Aztecs and others derived their word for the Zapotecs (a people properly known, in their own language, as the ‘Biniza’).
      • If you are growing custard apples, bananas, sapodillas and carambolas, they could all do with a dressing of citrus and fruit tree fertiliser spread evenly around under the leaf canopy.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Spanish zapotillo, diminutive of zapote, from Nahuatl tzápotl.

Rhymes

Anguilla, Aquila, Attila, Camilla, cedilla, chiller, chinchilla, driller, Drusilla, fibrillar, filler, flotilla, fulfiller, Godzilla, gorilla, griller, guerrilla, killer, Manila, manilla, mantilla, miller, pillar, Priscilla, sarsaparilla, Schiller, scilla, scintilla, spiller, swiller, thriller, tiller, vanilla, vexilla, villa, Willa, willer, zorilla

Definition of sapodilla in US English:

sapodilla

nounˌsapəˈdiləˌsæpəˈdɪlə
  • 1A large evergreen tropical American tree which has edible fruit and hard durable wood and yields chicle.

    人心果树

    Manilkara zapota, family Sapotaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • All the sculptures on display are made of wood of different types: jackfruit wood, sapodilla wood, longan wood and the durable teakwood.
    • It introduces, maintains, characterizes, and evaluates germplasm collections of banana, plantain, sapodilla, mamey sapote, cacao, Garcinia, Annona, and bamboo.
    • The sapodilla tree is notoriously slow growing, but it can reach heights of 60 to 100 feet with a large spread.
    • The genus Madhuca belongs to the same family as the sapodilla, and some species have edible, although poor, fruits.
    • The house, erected across four thick branches of a towering sapodilla tree is hidden among its lush, green leaves.
    1. 1.1 The sweet, brownish, bristly fruit of the sapodilla tree.
      人心果(指果实)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If you are growing custard apples, bananas, sapodillas and carambolas, they could all do with a dressing of citrus and fruit tree fertiliser spread evenly around under the leaf canopy.
      • There are zapotes, the sapodilla plums from which the Aztecs and others derived their word for the Zapotecs (a people properly known, in their own language, as the ‘Biniza’).
      • Firm sapodillas are unripe and guarantee a nasty, tongue-curling experience for the eater due to a high tannin content.

Origin

Late 17th century: from Spanish zapotillo, diminutive of zapote, from Nahuatl tzápotl.

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