Type | Fruit |
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Region or state | Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America |
Sapote ( /səˈpoʊtiː, -eɪ, -ə/; [1] [2] [3] from Nahuatl: tzapotl [4]) is a term for a soft, edible fruit. [1] The word is incorporated into the common names of several unrelated fruit-bearing plants native to Mexico, Central America and northern parts of South America. [1] [5] It is also known in Caribbean English as soapapple.[ citation needed]
Some but not all sapotes come from the family Sapotaceae:
tropical evergreen tree Achras sapota [...] sapote [...] derivative from Nahuatl tzapotl. The Spanish diminutive form gave English sapodilla in the same sense
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