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What is another word for sapodillas?

Pronunciation: [sˌapədˈɪləz] (IPA)

Sapodillas are also known as chikoo, sapota, and naseberry. These sweet fruits have a brown, rough outer skin and a juicy, soft interior that is similar in texture to a pear. In some regions, sapodillas are also referred to as zapote, ciku, or sawo. They are native to Mexico and Central America, but are now grown in tropical areas around the world. The fruit is often used in desserts, smoothies, and jams because of its sweet flavor. Some people even use sapodilla leaves to make tea. Regardless of what you call it, sapodilla remains a delicious and nutritious fruit.
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Bananas, plantains, cocoa and other palms, bread-fruit, gigantic teak trees, dense leaved mangoes, acacias and mangroves on stilt roots like crutches, sugar-cane, sapotes with sweet green fruit the size of one's head, sapodillas with fruit looking like russet apples, mahogany, rose-wood, and a thousand others which neither Mr. Grigsby nor Charley's father recognized, grew wild, as thick as grass-and every tree and shrub was wreathed with flowering vines trying to drag it down.
"Gold Seekers of '49"
Edwin L. Sabin
"Don't worry, uncle," he said; "they're not my sapodillas"; and he walked toward the pomelo grove, the old man, a picture of outraged innocence, looking after him, thoughtlessly biting into an enormous and juicy specimen of the forbidden fruit as he looked.
"The Firing Line"
Robert W. Chambers
81; sapodillias for sapodillas, p.
"Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales"
Charles B. Cory

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