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Definition of Mammee apple
1. Noun. Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind.
Terms within: Mamey, Mammee
Group relationships: Genus Mammea, Mammea
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
2. Noun. Globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh.
Generic synonyms: Edible Fruit
Group relationships: Mamey, Mammea Americana, Mammee, Mammee Tree
Definition of Mammee apple
1. Noun. A South American fruit tree, ''Mammea americana'' ¹
2. Noun. The fruit of this tree ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mammee Apple
Literary usage of Mammee apple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"mammee apple (mammea Americana, Linn.), a handsome tree of 60 feet in height,
native of the Caribbean islands and ..."
2. Fruit Recipes: A Manual of the Food Value of Fruits and Nine Hundred by Riley Maria Fletcher Berry (1907)
"The mammee apple (Mammea Americana), sometimes called the South American or St.
Domingo or wild apricot, is one of the standbys of tropical countries, ..."
3. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"The Mammee-Apple is still larger and round, with one or more large and very rough
seeds, and is the Mammea Americana. Such is the confusion of these various ..."
4. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"... Lin., which produces the mammee apple, or wild apricot of South America.]
[The mammee apple tree is nn ally of the celebrated ..."
5. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture by Peter Henderson (1904)
"M. Americana, a native of the West Indies, produces the mammee apple, or South
American Apricot, which is very much valued in tropical countries. ..."
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