mammee

Meaning

noun

1. tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
2. tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind
3. globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh
4. brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

Synonyms for mammee

• marmalade tree
• sapote
• Pouteria zapota
• Calocarpum zapota
• mammee apple
• mamey
• mammee tree
• Mammea americana
• marmalade plum