Word: sapodilla
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...haunt first of pirates preying on the Spanish Main, later of rumrunners, sometimes of German submarines. On the swampy, 17 4-mile shore live 63,000 Negroes and Indians, a handful of whites. Back of the capital, greasy rivers reach under forests of cedar, mahogany and chicle-bearing sapodilla to Peten, wildest part of Guatemala...
Students apparently respect classrooms and the feelings of instructors as a rule, for Sever's tiled ground floor is liberally bedaubed each day with wads discarded upon entrance. Chicle gum is dried balata juice, which comes from the South American Sapodilla tree, and College caretakers are unanimous in consigning the stuff to perdition...
...basic substance of chewing gum, obtained from the bully tree and the sapodilla...
...iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged, batlike monster" had escaped...
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