| the plant family Sapotaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees and shrubs having milky juice, simple leaves, small flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry, and including the buckthorn (genus Bumelia), sapodilla, star apple, and trees that are the source of gutta-percha and balata. |
| sapodilla family | |
noun | |
| tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit [syn: Sapotaceae] |