Mammee

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}, {sapote},
             {Pouteria zapota}, {Calocarpum zapota}]
       2: tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery
          rind [syn: {mammee apple}, {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
          apple}]
       4: brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet [syn: {sapote},
           {marmalade plum}]