Achras zapota

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Related to Achras zapota: sapodilla, sapota, naseberry, Chikoo, Chiku

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Achras zapota - large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras

Manilkara zapota, sapodilla, sapodilla tree

sapodilla plum, sapota, sapodilla - tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp

fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit

genus Manilkara, Manilkara - genus of large evergreen trees with milky latex; pantropical

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Refrigerated ripe sapodillas (Achras zapota L.) (15[degrees] to 21[degrees]Brix) (length of 68.60 [+ or -] 3.1mm, diameter of 68.1 [+ or -] 2.2mm) were randomly purchased at local supermarkets (in Recife-PE, Brazil).

Water and sucrose diffusion coefficients during osmotic dehydration of sapodilla (Achras zapota L.)/ Coeficiente de difusao da agua e sacarose durante a desidratacao osmotica do sapoti (Achras zapota L.)

(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) on sapodilla (Achras zapota) in northern India and Pakistan.

Banisia argutula (Lepidoptera: Thyrididae) is the dominant sapodilla borer in southern Florida

Among 52 plant species tested, aqueous extract of Acacia nilotica, Achras zapota, Datura stramonium, Emblica officinalis, Eucalyptus globules, Lawsonia inermis, Mimusops elengi, Peltophorum pterocarpum, Polyalthia longifolia, Prosopis juliflora, Punica granatum, Sygigium cumini revealed significant antifungal activity against one or the other Aspergillus species tested.