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Mam`mee´

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(Bot.) A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (Mammea Americana); also, its fruit, called the mammee apple. The latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple.

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Noun	1.	mammee - tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum Calocarpum zapota, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota, sapote marmalade plum, sapote, mammee - brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet genus Pouteria, Pouteria - tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel) tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
	2.	mammee - tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind mamey, Mammea americana, mammee apple, mammee tree mamey, mammee apple, mammee - globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh genus Mammea, Mammea - American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
	3.	mammee - globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh mamey, mammee apple edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh mamey, Mammea americana, mammee apple, mammee tree, mammee - tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind
	4.	mammee - brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet marmalade plum, sapote edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh 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