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Mammea

noun

American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit

• Syn: ↑genus Mammea

• Hypernyms: ↑dilleniid dicot genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Guttiferae, ↑family Guttiferae, ↑Clusiaceae, ↑family Clusiaceae, ↑St John's wort family

• Member Meronyms: ↑mammee apple, ↑mammee, ↑mamey, ↑mammee tree, ↑Mammea americana

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\\məˈmēə, maˈ-\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Spanish mamey mammee — more at mammee

: a genus of American and Asiatic trees (family Guttiferae) that have a valvate 2-parted calyx and 2-celled or 4-celled ovary becoming a large drupaceous fruit

Useful english dictionary. 2012.