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mammee


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mammee  \Mam*mee"\,  n.  [Haytian  mamey.]  (Bot.) 
  A  fruit  tree  of  tropical  America,  belonging  to  the  genus 
  {Mammea}  ({M.  Americana});  also  its  fruit.  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}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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},  {sapote}, 
  {Pouteria  zapota},  {Calocarpum  zapota}] 
  2:  tropical  American  tree  having  edible  fruit  with  a  leathery 
  rind  [syn:  {mammee  apple},  {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 
  apple}] 
  4:  brown  oval  fruit  flesh  makes  excellent  sherbet  [syn:  {sapote}, 
  {marmalade  plum}] 




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