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Mammee tree   Listen
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Mammee tree, Mammee  n.  (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.
Synonyms: mammee apple, mammee, mamey, Mammea americana.






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"Mammee tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... rocks. Some of the isles are low and more fertile, producing some of the trees that are known in Europe. A few of the westermost isles are larger than the rest, being nine or ten leagues long, and six or seven broad, producing many trees, especially Mammee figs, and they have also some pretty large fresh-water streams, and many rivulets. The air is continually refreshed, by the sea-breeze by day and the land-winds at night, so that they are not troubled with such ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr



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