Crossword-Solution: SAPOTACEOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sapotaceous | a. | Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotaceae) of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named. |
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| pertaining to or like sapota; belonging to sapota family of trees | 1 answer |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SAPOTACEOUS (5)
Now this William Curteen and his father Sir William, of Flemish Descent, were the most extensive British merchants of the time, and had not only ships trading to, but also possessed forts and factories on, some of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, the native _habitat_ of the sapotaceous tree that yields the gutta percha.
LUCUMA MAMMOSUM.--This sapotaceous plant is cultivated for its fruit, which is called marmalade, on account of its containing a thick agreeably flavored pulp, bearing some resemblance in appearance and taste to quince marmalade.
This sapotaceous plant attains a great size in Guiana and affords a dense, close-grained, valuable timber.
BULLY-TREE, bool'i-tr[=e], _n._ a name given to several West Indian sapotaceous trees yielding good timber.--Also BULL'ET-TREE, BULL'ETRIE, BOLL'ETRIE.
The tree belongs, of course, to the group in which botanists place _sapotaceous_ or gum-exuding genera.