What is "mammee"

Mammee \Mam*mee"\, Mammee tree \Mam*mee" tree`\, n. [Haitian mamey.] (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.

Syn: mammee apple, mammee, mamey, Mammea americana.

n. 1 An American fruit tree, ''Mammea americana''. 2 Its large fragrant fruit, with a thick tough ring surrounding bright yellow pulp.

1. n. tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum [syn: marmalade tree, sapote, Pouteria zapota, Calocarpum zapota]

2. tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind [syn: mammee apple, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea americana]

3. globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh [syn: mamey, mammee apple]

4. brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet [syn: sapote, marmalade plum]

Mammee may refer to several New World tropical fruits or the trees which produce these fruits:

• Magnolia guatemalensis, in the Magnoliaceae family
• Mammea americana, in the Calophyllaceae family
• Pouteria sapota, in the Sapotaceae family