音标:[,sæpә'teiʃәs] ;
a. [植]山榄科的
a. Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotaceae) of
(mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the
Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra),
and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which
the order is named.

Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. For many thousands of years it was the one field of awareness about which humans had anything more than the

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Leading computer database software maker Oracle is suing SAP, the German company known for their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Oracle, which has been moving into the ERP market themselves, accuses employees at SAP's TomorrowNow subsid

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 29 October 2009 The life and tragic disappearance of pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart are dramatized in a new film starring two-time Oscar-winner Hilary Swank and directed by Indian-born Mira Nair. Here's a look at Amelia.

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Crazy Horse was Chief of the Lakota Indians, a Warrior and a Holy Man He tried to protect his people's way of living. VOICE ONE: I'm Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we t

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is single quotation marks versus double quotation marks. Cyndy left this message on the MyChingo line: Hey Grammar Girl. I would love for a future topic to be on the use of quotes versus, I don't know, the single quot

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Potatoes are very important in my life. Actually, theyre more important on my dinner plate. I love potatoes. They are amazing vegetables. I cannot count the number of different ways to cook a potato. Potatoes can be fried, baked, mashed, boiled, saut

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6 (Xinhua)-- Yahoo on Tuesday fired Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz and replaced her temporarily with the company's chief financial officer. On behalf of the entire board, I want to thank Carol for her service to Yahoo during

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Japanese automaker Toyota has announced yet another recall. This time it is Tacoma pickup trucks sold in the United Sates. The announcement is the latest in a string of recalls that have hurt the company's image, and prompted concern among many in Ja

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Illegal Fishing Threatens Tonie Sap Lake Villagers' Livelihood Despite a government ban on commercial fishing across Tonle Sap Lake - the largest lake in Southeast Asia -- fishing communities say bribery of corrupt local officials has meant the illeg

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It was an awkward tiff in what should have been a celebratory period. 这个口角使原本的庆祝场面顿时尷尬起来。 In the end, a complex solution was worked out that granted him ten million shares in January 2000 that were valued at the

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From iCEO to CEO 从iCEO到CEO Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. 两年多的时间里,乔布斯在苹果董事会的导师埃德伍拉德一直在催促他把

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At the January 2000 Macworld in San Francisco, Jobs rolled out the new Macintosh operating system, OSX, 2000年1月,在旧金山的Macworld大会上,乔布斯发布了新的操作系统Mac OSX, which used some of the software that Apple had bou

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 03 October 2006 A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, but the issue remains divisive. The latest battleground is the state of South Dakota, where voters will decide in November wheth

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GUY RAZ, HOST: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. So most of us think we know ourselves pretty well, right? ROBERT SAPOLSKY: I'm sort of a hippie pacifist in terms of general persona. RAZ: That we're good people... SAPOLSKY: You know, I'm

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JAKARTA, Oct. 12 (Xinhua)-- A total of 53,000 Toyota cars in Indonesia have been recalled due to faulty window switches, local media reported Friday. The recall applies to Yaris, Vios, Corolla Altis and Camry models produced between 2006 and 2008, To

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The president of the Japanese automaker Toyota has apologized for the company's global recall of millions of vehicles due to safety issues. Akio Toyoda is the grandson of Toyota's founder. Toyota's top executive, president and CEO Akio Toyoda, offere

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今天我们要学的词是Mouse Potato。 Mouse Potato, 大家都知道couch potato, 指那些老是坐在沙发上看电视的人。顾名思义,mouse Potato, 就是指那些老是坐在电脑前面的人。 Mouse potato is the online, wired gene

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今天我们要学的词是Mouse Potato。 Mouse Potato, 大家都知道couch potato, 指那些老是坐在沙发上看电视的人。顾名思义,mouse Potato, 就是指那些老是坐在电脑前面的人。 Mouse potato is the online, wired gene

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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Lucas scored a goal either side of half-time as Botafogo maintained its lead at the top of the Brazilian Serie A championship with a 3-2 victory over Coritiba on Sunday. Lincoln stunned the visitors with a goal in

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今天我们要学的词是quota。 Quota, 定量,配额。Idaho has set a quota of 220 wolves for the upcoming hunting season, 爱达荷州规定,今年狩猎季节最多只能猎杀220头狼。意大利职业足协负责人说,Italian footbal

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学英语单词
abare
abyssal fault
acer flabellatum rehd.
anhepatic phase
assbackward(s)
awakers
azimuth and elevation output
be above doing something
bulk freight
certificate trust list
Chaidari
check ring
chess board pattern
chronic posterior parametritis
clavus viduus
coal receiving bunker
curtain jet
die stamping press
dipteron
domestic commerce
dorsi-ventral leaf
egg pod
eight-spot
element position
employability
endolymphatic fossa
engineering design coordination
epoxy mica paper
fill sb's shoes
fluoridationist
folbots
foramen mandibul?
fountaineers
fractional centrifiguation
genus mastodons
grandiosity
granulomeres
have a loose screw
headwall gap
herbaceous border
high temperature sensor
hilldale
horsehair wig
hypoinsulinemia
immoderates
inductive gage
information format
infrared-sensitive
isonymous substitution
iturralde
jackarses
knot saw
Kunčina
lacinious
lateral epicondyle of femur
light damage
lowest percentage extractability
macromolecular science
meat grinders
metahuman
midst
minimal subset
multiple digit adder
Negros Occidental, Prov.of
nematologies
novelty twister
oriskanies
ounce apothecaries
outscorns
page change
Paschim Durgāpur
passive query
period regulator
plus lens
polypropyrene
raincoast
reverse threshold
rope guy derrick
rose(flower) oil
round conductor
rum babas
schedule status pre-processor
sequestrates
simple fractures
single floodable compartment
southbridges
strategic weapons system
stutting sail
tallower
telpak
the bonds of slavery
time-sharing file processing
transformation toughening
treblier
turnage
twin deck crane
undelivered addressee unknown
universal bibliography
wagamama
wall derrick
waste water dis posal
zero-energy reactor