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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A tropical Asian evergreen tree (Mangifera indica) cultivated for its edible fruit.
  2. n. 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. n. Any of various types of pickle, especially a pickled stuffed sweet pepper.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The luscious, slightly acid fruit of the mango-tree, in shape and appearance somewhat resembling the plantain. See Mangifera.
  2. n. The tree that produces mangos.
  3. n. A small green melon pickled in imitation of pickled mangos.
  4. n. A certain humming-bird, Lampornis mango.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
  2. n. The fruit of the mango tree.
  3. n. A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing.
  4. n. A green bell pepper suitable for pickling
  5. n. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
  6. n. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax. (also often capitalized: Mango)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.
  2. n. A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed
  2. n. large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit

Etymologies

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

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  • hernesheir 4. A green bell pepper suitable for pickling
    5. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo. Nov 28, 2011

  • hernesheir Another fruity name for a strain of medicinal marijuana. Jan 15, 2010

  • RWeaver My grandmother in southeastern Ohio called green bell peppers mangoes; the current (28 Jun 09) Wikipedia entry says "In parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, the fruit bell pepper is called a 'mango.'" Jun 28, 2009

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