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mammee

 
WordNet: mammee
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The noun has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
  Synonyms: marmalade tree, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota

Meaning #2: tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind
  Synonyms: mammee apple, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana

Meaning #3: globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh
  Synonyms: mamey, mammee apple

Meaning #4: brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
  Synonyms: sapote, marmalade plum


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