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  • noun Plural form of mangosteen.

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Examples

  • Or wander through a well-stocked grocery store, and fill up a gift basket with an assortment of exotic fruits — blood oranges, dates, guavas, lychees, mangosteens, papayas, rambutans, starfruit, or whatever catches your eye.

    Dr. Santa’s 12 tips for a healthy holiday 2010

  • Or wander through a well-stocked grocery store, and fill up a gift basket with an assortment of exotic fruits—blood oranges, dates, guavas, lychees, mangosteens, papayas, rambutans, starfruit, or whatever catches your eye.

    Dr. Santa’s 12 tips for a healthy holiday 2010

  • In the midst of insanity, we did manage to launch SWAC, a lip product formulated especially for breast cancer awareness (it is made with echinaccea, mangosteens, soothing vanilla, and antioxidants, all wellness ingredients). 20% of the process benefit the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation.

    Karen Robinovitz: Purple Lab's Journey of Trauma and Triumph 2010

  • There was a platter on the credenza filled with fruits so exotic that he could identify only the mangosteens.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • Megiavelli 3:48 pm: Are mangosteens really as amazing as everyone says?

    Transcript: Settings-The Medieval World « Coyote Con 2010

  • Not to mention the mangosteens that are always in season at the same time.

    Road to the islands Glenda Larke 2009

  • Too bad fresh mangosteens are so hard to find back home.

    Thailand 2007

  • Not to mention the mangosteens that are always in season at the same time.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Glenda Larke 2009

  • At the market in Ubud, we descend into a smoky netherworld of mangosteens, Technicolor pancakes and gelatinous mounds quivering in the half-light.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • He sometimes ventures farther afield, having gone to Puerto Rico for mangosteens, Italy for blood oranges and France for greengage plums, but most of his work is done in California.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

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