mammee
n 1: tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet
edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in
the genus Calocarpum [syn: marmalade tree, mammee,
sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota]
2: tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery
rind [syn: mammee apple, mammee, mamey, mammee tree,
Mammea americana]
3: globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery
rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh [syn: mamey,
mammee, mammee apple]
4: brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet [syn:
sapote, mammee, marmalade plum]
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Mammee \Mam*mee"\, Mammee tree \Mam*mee" tree`\, n. [Haitian
mamey.] (Bot.)
A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus
Mammea (Mammea Americana); also, its fruit, called the
mammee apple. The latter is large, covered with a thick,
tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant
taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple.
Syn: mammee apple, mammee, mamey, Mammea americana.
[1913 Webster]
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