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noun

mammee apple n. (Bot.)

A tropical American tree (Mammea americana) having edible fruit (the mammee apple) with a leathery rind.

Synonyms: mammee, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana.

The globular or ovoid tropical fruit of the mammee tree (Mammea americana), having a thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh.

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Etymology of 'Mammee apple'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... 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