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sap·o·dil·la
/ ˌsapəˈdilə/
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a large, evergreen, tropical American tree (Manilkara zapota, family Sapotaceae) that yields chicle and has edible fruit and hard, durable wood.
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(also sapodilla plum)
the sweet, brownish, bristly fruit of this tree.
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Create an ultimate basket of goodies a foodie would never forget
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 12/18/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Christmas: face=+Bold; A partridge in a sapodilla treeface=-Bold; . A partridge would savor the sapodilla, a very sweet pearlike fruit with hints...cinnamon. Fruit-laden this month, the sapodilla tree comes from the southerly Americas...
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Collards and codfish
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 4/23/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...get was the first part of the name--Sapodilla. An intense but fruitless few minutes...this small Myrtle Avenue establishment: Sapodilla Cafe. Located in an unlikely Clinton...Vienna woods or no Vienna woods, the Sapodilla Cafe bills itself "an exotic soul food...
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Mayan civilization collapsed because of resource depletion, not disease or warfare.
News Wire article from: Asian News International; 6/3/2009; 548 words
; ...used only large, straight logs of the sapodilla tree - a particularly strong wood that...inscriptions. But after that date, large sapodilla logs were almost entirely replaced in...logwood if they had run out of suitable sapodilla trees to harvest. Earlier, studies...
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An adjuster can help out new caterer
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/23/1986; ; 499 words
; ...anything about the fruit I recently tasted called sapodilla or sapota? A. The sapodilla and sapote (sometimes spelled sapota) are actually two different fruits. The sapodilla (pronounced sap-poe-dill-la) is a round...
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Palm Beach projects: a sampling of West Palm Beach developments.
Magazine article from: South Florida CEO; 11/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...Stages 7 Courtyards in CityPlace 720 S. Sapodilla Ave. 264-unit condo conversion of...Planning Stages 11 Metropolitan 403 S. Sapodilla Ave 8-story tower with 149 units Developer...retail district 22 CityPlace Between Sapodilla Avenue and Quadrille Boulevard, and...
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How gum works.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune; 3/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...compound called chicle that comes from the sapodilla tree. If you are an adventurous sort...Mexico, hike into the rainforest, find a sapodilla tree and cut into the bark. A rubbery...around. There aren't nearly enough sapodilla trees to supply the world with gum base...
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HOW STUFF WORKS: Chewing gum first unwrapped in the rainforest
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 4/2/2007; ; 634 words
; ...compound called chicle that comes from the sapodilla tree. If you are an adventurous sort...Mexico, hike into the rainforest, find a sapodilla tree and cut into the bark. A rubbery...around. There aren't nearly enough sapodilla trees to supply the world with gum base...
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How Stuff Works: Chew on this: Here's how gum works
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis); 4/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...compound called chicle that comes from the sapodilla tree. If you are an adventurous sort...Mexico, hike into the rainforest, find a sapodilla tree and cut into the bark. A rubbery...around. There aren't nearly enough sapodilla trees to supply the world with gum base...
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Report summarizes enzymes study findings from N. Jacob and co-researchers.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 12/31/2008; 700+ words
; ...conditions for enzymatic clarification of sapodilla juice. Polygalacturonase obtained from...the optimum conditions for clarifying sapodilla juice were enzyme concentration 1.15...Optimization of Enzymatic Clarification of Sapodilla Juice: A Statistical Perspective. Applied...
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The Story of Chewing Gum
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 5/31/2007; 330 words
; ...The ancient Mayans chewed chicle, which is the sap from the sapodilla tree. North American Indians chewed the sap from spruce trees...rain boots, and bicycle tires out of the chicle from Mexican sapodilla trees, but every experiment failed. One day in 1869, he...
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Sapodilla Tree
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Sapodilla Tree The sapodilla, Achra zapota , or plum tree is a large evergreen tree native to Central and South America. Sapodilla trees can often grow to 100 ft (30 m) tall with a girth of some...
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sapodilla
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sapodilla the edible fruit of Manilkara zapota...and soft to be eaten. The latex of the sapodilla plant is also the source of chicle...and items in tropical South America. Sapodilla is classified in the division Magnoliophyta...
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sapodilla plum
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
sapodilla plum See ACHRAS .
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chicle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...gum obtained from the latex of the sapodilla tree ( Manilkara zapota ), a tropical American evergreen. The sapodilla (known also by many other common...Unsystematic and excessive tapping of the sapodilla (especially in the Yucatá...
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SIC 2067 Chewing Gum
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...spruce gum. American settlers traveling west learned about chewing chicle, the hardened sap of sapodilla trees, from the Osage Indians. The sapodilla tree is found mainly in the tropical rain forests of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and Guatemala...
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