Pouteria

noun

tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel)

• Syn: ↑genus Pouteria

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Sapotaceae, ↑family Sapotaceae, ↑sapodilla family

• Member Meronyms:

↑canistel, ↑canistel tree, ↑Pouteria campechiana nervosa, ↑marmalade tree, ↑mammee, ↑sapote, ↑Pouteria zapota, ↑Calocarpum zapota

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\\pau̇ˈtirēə, püˈt-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin

: a large genus of chiefly tropical American timber trees (family Sapotaceae) with flower clusters borne in the leaf axils and usually edible fruit