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Mammee apple

noun
1.
Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind.  Synonyms: mamey, Mammea americana, mammee, mammee tree.
2.
Globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh.  Synonyms: mamey, mammee.






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"Mammee apple" Quotes from Famous Books



... golden fruit peeped through their shining green leaves, shaddocks, and mangosteen, with many a stately palmiste rearing its tall feathery head above the others; while, in addition, the wild locust, or iron-wood tree, the mammee apple, the pomme-rose and the guava bush flourished between huge blocks of stone, with flat table surfaces and of probable volcanic origin, that seemed to have been thrown at random upon the surface of the grassy expanse, where they now ...
— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson



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