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noun
1.
a tall, tropical American tree, Mammea americana, having thick, glossy leaves and fragrant white flowers.
2.
the usually round, edible fruit of this tree, having a russet-colored rind and yellow, juicy flesh.
3.
Also, mamey, mam·mey.
Also called mammee apple (for defs. 1, 2).
Origin:
1565–75; < Spanish mamey, perhaps < Taino
1565–75; < Spanish mamey, perhaps < Taino
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Mammee
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| mamey, mammee or mammee apple (mæˈmiː) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a tropical American tree, Mammea americana, cultivated for its large edible fruits: family Clusiaceae |
| 2. | the fruit of this tree, having yellow pulp and a red skin |
| 3. | another name for the marmalade tree |
| [C16: from Spanish mamey, from Haitian] | |
| mammee, mammee or mammee apple | |
| —n | |
| [C16: from Spanish mamey, from Haitian] | |
| mammee apple, mammee or mammee apple | |
| —n | |
| [C16: from Spanish mamey, from Haitian] | |
| mammee (mæˈmiː) | |
| —n | |
| a variant spelling of mamey | |
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