To my friend I am also indebted for several young plants of the sapodilla plum (ACHRAS SAPOTA), sold in some parts of. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
The players took fistfulls of wet sand to build a little hill to elevate their balls made of gutta percha, a material from the rubbery dried sap of sapodilla trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Founding Fathers of Golf] Reference
Besides these were a host of others, such as the avocado pear, soursop, sapodilla, and sapota, all of which, in addition to their size and grand appearance, bear excellent fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
The fruits peculiar to the torrid zone all grow in profusion and among them the native is fondest of the juicy mango, the guava, the aguacate or alligator pear, the anon or custard apple, the guanabana or soursop, the mamon or sweetsop, the mamey or marmalade fruit, the nispero or sapodilla and the tamarind. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
"For the last temple (temple 3), they went back to sapodilla - why?" says Lentz. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Police say a man shot his neighbor as she picked sapodilla fruit in his tree, thinking she was a monkey. From Wordnik.com. [Taipei Times] Reference
Police said a man in Malaysia shot his neighbor as she picked sapodilla fruit in his tree thinking she was a monkey. From Wordnik.com. [CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports] Reference
Hamil disappeared in the direction of the garden where Shiela now stood under the bougainvillia, leisurely biting into a sapodilla. From Wordnik.com. [The Firing Line] Reference
Like the durian, the sapodilla plum grows all too slowly for my precipitate tastes, though I console myself plenteously with mangoes. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Police said a man in Malaysia shot his neighbor as she picked sapodilla fruit in his tree thinking she was a monkey. From Wordnik.com. [KSL / U.S. / National] Reference
KUALA LUMPUR (Malaysia) - POLICE say a man in Malaysia shot his neighbour as she picked sapodilla fruit (chiku) in his tree thinking it was a monkey. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Chavela lands on a "magic" sapodilla tree where she meets another girl; after her flight home, Chavela learns that the girl was in fact her own abuelita as a child. From Wordnik.com. [Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News] Reference
But after that date, large sapodilla logs were almost entirely replaced in temple construction by logwood, a smaller, gnarly tree that is almost impossible to carve. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
Insurance agent Dave Conn opened his post office box in the Police say a man in Malaysia shot his neighbour as she picked sapodilla fruit in his tree thinking it was a monkey. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
A number of animals and vegetables followed the same route: avocado from aguacate; mesquite; sapodilla from zapote; guayule; coyote; armadillo; ocelot from ocelote; chaparral; and javalina from jabalina. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference
One of the white-haired, black-skinned children of men -- though the point is locally disputed -- looked up from the grass where he squatted gathering ripe fruit under a sapodilla tree; and to an inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [The Firing Line] Reference
Two of the sporting student loan company in sapodilla anticipative who are not manned for coeducation or grenadier hoffa painlessly hyaloid of retained barranquilla to casually marine within on the concordant. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
They're entertaining to watch as they chase each other across the sky, but my patience begins to wear thin during their annual one-week residency at my house when they eat all of the fruit on my sapodilla tree. From Wordnik.com. [PalmBeachDailyNews - Latest Headlines] Reference
(Bangkok) Co. A beautifully refreshing Darjeeling and sapodilla sorbert prepared by chef Denis Lartigue of Conrad Bangkok was followed by the main course, slow roast fillet of wagyu beef with ragout of girolle mushrooms. From Wordnik.com. [Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News] Reference
To my friend I am also indebted for several young plants of the sapodilla plum (ACHRAS SAPOTA), sold in some parts of India under the spurious title of MANGOSTEEN, and considered to be one of the most luscious fruits of the tropics. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
In central Veracruz State, in the southern portion of this ecoregion, the forest’s vegetative association changes and the dominant species become mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), sapodilla (Manilkara zapota), Bernoullia flammea, and Astronium graveolens. From Wordnik.com. [Veracruz moist forests] Reference
The bats stir in the sapodilla trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference
Chicozapote: sapodilla (Manilkara sapota). From Wordnik.com. [Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit] Reference
Special report "After I was circumcised, I got up and continued with my game, playing catching and jumping from branch to branch of a ciku (sapodilla) tree. From Wordnik.com. [Malaysiakini :: News] Reference
"It's definitely an inferior material," says Lentz, who reasons that the temple-builders would only have accepted logwood if they had run out of suitable sapodilla trees to harvest (. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
Indies as the sapodilla plum. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
03 / 13 / 2009 6: 56pm Police said a man in Malaysia shot his neighbor as she picked sapodilla fruit in his tree thinking she was a monkey. From Wordnik.com. [KSL / U.S. / National] Reference
Guyana http://sapodilla.blogspot.com/. From Wordnik.com. [Guyana] Reference
Mamey sapote, sapodilla, eugenia family, jaboticaba, velvet apple, black sapote, white sapote, white mombin, strawberry tree (50: 43 min). From Wordnik.com. [4: Multipurpose trees] Reference
While in summer season light and low weight food, various tasty fruits and drinks we get from nature, in which water melon, cucumber, kakdi, grapes, lemon, coconut water, strawberry, apple, mango, sapodilla are included. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Sugar-cane, bananas, cocoanut-palms, plantains, and various other fruits are cultivated; vanilla, sarsaparilla, sapodilla or chewing-gum, rubber, and the cahoon or coyol palm, valuable for its oil, grow wild in large quantities. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
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