Achras


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Noun1.Achras - tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruitAchras - tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
family Sapotaceae, sapodilla family, Sapotaceae - tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit
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Type: Brazil, Pernambuco, Recife, Jardim Zoo Botanico-Dois Irmaos, ad folia viva Achras sapota, A.
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).
(Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) on sapodilla (Achras zapota) in northern India and Pakistan.
Pereira, "Purification and partial characterization of polyphenol oxidase from sapodilla plum (achras sapota)," Journal of Food and Nutrition Sciences, vol.
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.