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Definition of Mammees
1. mammee [n] - See also: mammee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mammees
Literary usage of Mammees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"Here are sold all manner of fruits and vegetables, apples, peaches, pears,
pomegranates, mammees, figs, bananas, tunas, quinces, tomatoes, corn, ..."
2. The History of the Maroons, from Their Origin to the Establishment of Their by Robert Charles Dallas (1803)
"mammees, and other wild but delicious fruits, were at their hand, and pine-apples
grew ia their hedges. They bred cattle and hogs, ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1844)
"... bananas, tamarinds, papaws, mammees, and other fruits. Presently a little
black fellow, in a state of nudity, climbed dexterously up a cocoanut tree, ..."
4. Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand: Being an Artist's by George French Angas (1847)
"... bananas, tamarinds, pa- paws, mammees, and other fruits. Presently a little
black fellow, in a state of nudity, climbed dexterously up a cocoa-nut tree, ..."
5. Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans by Frederick Albion Ober (1887)
"... figs, grapes, and pomegranates; by their side flourish the East Indian mangoes,
papaws, the American ananas (6 species), mammees, aguacates, spondias, ..."
6. From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During by Eliza Ripley (1889)
"... preserved guavas and mammees, grated cocoanut stewed in sugar, and a very
delicious custard made with cocoanut-milk, besides various other ..."
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