Meaning & use

chico

noun·Advanced

In Philippine English, a small brown-skinned tropical fruit with sweet, grainy flesh, also known as sapodilla.

See it in a sentence

She bought a bag of ripe chico from the market to eat for dessert.

The chico tree in their backyard produces fruit almost every season.

A note on using this word

Chico is the common Philippine name for the fruit also called sapodilla or naseberry in other English-speaking regions.

Words with a similar meaning

sapodilla

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