noun
- Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum.
- synonyms: marmalade tree, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota
- Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind.
- synonyms: mammee apple, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana
- Globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh.
- synonyms: mamey, mammee apple
- Brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet.
- synonyms: sapote, marmalade plum
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