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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum;
[syn: marmalade tree, mammee, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota]

2. tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind;
[syn: mammee apple, mammee, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana]

3. globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh;
[syn: mamey, mammee, mammee apple]

4. brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet;
[syn: sapote, mammee, marmalade plum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mammee \Mam*mee"\, Mammee tree \Mam*mee" tree`\, n. [Haitian mamey.] (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. Syn: mammee apple, mammee, mamey, Mammea americana. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mammee n 1: tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum [syn: marmalade tree, mammee, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota] 2: tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind [syn: mammee apple, mammee, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana] 3: globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh [syn: mamey, mammee, mammee apple] 4: brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet [syn: sapote, mammee, marmalade plum]