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Definition of Mangosteen tree
1. Noun. East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit.
Terms within: Mangosteen
Group relationships: Garcinia, Genus Garcinia
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mangosteen Tree
Literary usage of Mangosteen tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1897)
"The mangosteen tree grows to the size and height of an apple tree, and bears a
fruit of a brown color, two inches or so in diameter, with a most delicious ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"... the gardener's standpoint to ascertain the cause have i:ed negative results.
It is known that the most precarious in the life of the mangosteen tree is ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"A monkey found his way into a fruit-garden, and there beheld a mangosteen-tree
loaded with fruit. Up he climbs, plucks a man- ..."
4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural TasteGar (1855)
"That the Syon mangosteen tree has really attained complete vigour, and a power
of bearing fruit hereafter regularly, is proved by the fact that the fruits ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"Starting as low as 2000 feet, the mangosteen tree showed co signs of fruit till
at 4000 fiet, but thence as far up as 4700 feet the trees were nearly ..."
6. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... strongly resembling an acacia both in its habits and botanical characters,
and which had been improperly called a mangosteen tree, thrived finely, ..."
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