Meaning & use
chico
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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