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sapodilla family
noun
tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit
Syn: ↑Sapotaceae, ↑family Sapotaceae
Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
Member Holonyms: ↑Ebenales, ↑order Ebenales
Member Meronyms:
Achras, ↑genus Achras, ↑Bumelia, ↑genus Bumelia, ↑Calocarpum, ↑genus Calocarpum, ↑Chrysophyllum, ↑genus Chrysophyllum, ↑Manilkara, ↑genus Manilkara, ↑Palaquium, ↑genus Palaquium, ↑Payena, ↑genus Payena, ↑Pouteria, ↑genus Pouteria

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noun
: sapotaceae

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the plant family Sapotaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees and shrubs having milky juice, simple leaves, small flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, and including the buckthorn (genus Bumelia), sapodilla, star apple, and trees that are the source of gutta-percha and balata.

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sapodilla family,
a group of (chiefly) tropical, dicotyledonous trees and shrubs, with a milky juice. The fruit of certain species, as the sapodilla, star apple, and marmalade tree, is edible; other species are valued for their hard timber; and others yield gutta-percha and gums.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.