MAMMEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mammee mean? 

• MAMMEE (noun)
  The noun MAMMEE has 4 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: MAMMEE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAMMEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calocarpum zapota; mammee; marmalade tree; Pouteria zapota; sapote

Hypernyms ("mammee" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "mammee"):

mammee; marmalade plum; sapote (brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet)

Holonyms ("mammee" is a member of...):

genus Pouteria; Pouteria (tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

mamey; Mammea americana; mammee; mammee apple; mammee tree

Hypernyms ("mammee" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "mammee"):

mamey; mammee; mammee apple (globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh)

Holonyms ("mammee" is a member of...):

genus Mammea; Mammea (American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

mamey; mammee; mammee apple

Hypernyms ("mammee" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("mammee" is a part of...):

mamey; Mammea americana; mammee; mammee apple; mammee tree (tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

mammee; marmalade plum; sapote

Hypernyms ("mammee" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("mammee" is a part of...):

Calocarpum zapota; mammee; marmalade tree; Pouteria zapota; sapote (tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum)