SAPOTE

noun Etymology: Spanish zapote sapodilla fruit Date: 1572 any of several roundish or ovoid sweet soft-fleshed fruits of Mexican and Central American trees: as, the green- or yellow-skinned fruit of a tree ( Casimiroa edulis ) of the rue family with white or yellow flesh, the green-skinned fruit of a persimmon ( Diospyros digyna ) with brown or blackish flesh, the coarse brown-skinned fruit of a tree ( Pouteria sapota syn. Calocarpum sapota ) of the sapodilla family with orange or reddish flesh