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Definition of Mangosteen
1. Noun. East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit.
Group relationships: Garcinia, Genus Garcinia
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
2. Noun. Two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples.
Definition of Mangosteen
1. n. A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.
Definition of Mangosteen
1. Noun. A tropical fruit of the tree ''Garcinia mangostana''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mangosteen
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Medical Definition of Mangosteen
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mangosteen
Literary usage of Mangosteen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"In structure and disposition, the fruit resembles the mangosteen. ... It is never
found wild, like the mangosteen. In geographical locality it is equally ..."
2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"The mango is esteemed to be very wholesome, and, with the exception of the
mangosteen and some of the best pineapples, it is considered the finest tropical ..."
3. Manual of Tropical and Subtropical Fruits: Excluding the Banana, Coconut by Wilson Popenoe (1920)
"The family yields drugs, gums, and resins. THE mangosteen (Plate XXIV ) (Garcinia
Mangostana, L.) Since the days when early voyagers returned to Europe with ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"The lateral shoots or small branches of young trees the mangosteen 3 to 4 feet
in height have been tried repeatedly; it the wood of the mangosteen growths ..."
5. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"The rind of the fruit becomes more yellow than the common mangosteen, but in
other respects (if we except the flavour, which is very inferior) the ..."
6. The Gardens of the Sun; Or, A Naturalist's Journal on the Mountains and in by Frederick William Burbidge (1880)
"... above have hitherto resisted culture outside their own restricted habitats,
if we except the solitary instance in which the mangosteen fruited in one of ..."
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