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    MARMALADE TREE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpumplay

    Synonyms:

    Calocarpum zapota; mammee; marmalade tree; Pouteria zapota; sapote

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    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("marmalade tree" is a kind of...):

    tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

    Meronyms (parts of "marmalade tree"):

    mammee; marmalade plum; sapote (brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet)

    Holonyms ("marmalade tree" is a member of...):

    genus Pouteria; Pouteria (tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel))

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