mango

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In fact, the mango is the official fruit of India, with its leaves put to ritual cleansing and other religious uses there.

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  1. noun A tropical Asian evergreen tree (Mangifera indica) cultivated for its edible fruit.
  2. noun The ovoid fruit of this tree, having a smooth rind, sweet juicy flesh, and a flat one-seeded stone. It is eaten ripe or pickled when green.
  3. noun Any of various types of pickle, especially a pickled stuffed sweet pepper.

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  • A rear garden was pleasant with jackfruit, mango, and plantain trees. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • Fruit-inspired colors such as mango, apple red, lemon yellow, and pumpkin orange are very fashionable for children's rooms, kitchens, pantries and closets. —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
  • In fact, the mango is the official fruit of India, with its leaves put to ritual cleansing and other religious uses there. —  Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines
  • The Daily Planet episode showed that the mango originated in Africa, and was taken before 4BC to the Indian sub-continent and then, when the Portuguese controlled both Africa and parts of southern India like Goa, re-exported other evolved genres of the original mango-named from a Tamil word mangkay-back into East Africa. —  Caribbean Net News Daily Headlines
  • Many a young plantation of orange, mango, and lemon trees has been destroyed by them. —  A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
 

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  1. From Portuguese manga, fruit of the mango tree, from Malay manga, from Tamil mānkāy : mān, mango tree + kāy, fruit.

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  1. = French mangue = Spanish mango = Portuguese manga, mango (manguier, the tree), from Malay mañggā, the mango (fruit).
 

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