Crossword clues for mangoes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mango \Man"go\, n.; pl. Mangoes. [Pg. manga, fr. Tamil m[=a]nk[=a]y.]
The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.
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A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.
Mango bird (Zo["o]l.), an oriole ( Oriolus kundoo), native of India.
Mango fish (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the Ganges ( Polynemus risua), highly esteemed for food. It has several long, slender filaments below the pectoral fins. It appears about the same time with the mango fruit, in April and May, whence the name.
Mango tree (Bot.), an .
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval smooth-skinned fruit [syn: mango tree, Mangifera indica]
large oval smooth-skinned tropical fruit with juicy aromatic pulp and a large hairy seed
[also: mangoes (pl)]
See mango
Wikipedia
Mangoes is a Canadian drama serial produced by the Suhrwardy brothers that revolves around the lives of young South Asians living in Canada. It began airing from June 27, 2012 on ATN Canada. Episodes are simultaneously released on YouTube for international audiences as well.
Usage examples of "mangoes".
Jack ended up sitting in the shade of a tree with Jimmy and Danny and Enoch, eating mangoes that literally fell into their laps, occasionally jumping up to sweep back plagues of ants, and watching these black Hindoos live their lives.
One charged straight through the middle of a crowd of Hanuman monkeys who were carrying hairy arm-loads of coconut-meat, figs, mangoes, jamboleiras, papayas, yellow pears, green bilimbins, red cashews, and prickly jack-fruit from the dissolving market, pursued by enraged bazaaris who were in turn pursued by a toothless cheetah.
The town had doubtless stood here for æons but gave the impression of having just been set up in the midst of an ancient forest, as giant trees—teaks, mangoes, mahua, mahogany, coconut-palm, axle-wood, and one or two cathedral-sized banyan trees—stood between houses, and spread and merged overhead to create a second roof high above the palm frond thatchings that topped the buildings.
My mother hates mangoes so we have to hide the beer where she won't see it.
We each ate only two mangoes, followed by one banana, and polished it off with one of the precious Baby Ruths.
The next morning, we drank a bottle of our precious water, ate two more mangoes, three more bananas, and savored the last of our Baby Ruths.
Hawaii's best mangoes grew at Hanakai, its most brilliant hibiscus and its best horses.
Into the room pulses the sunrise—the colors of the watermelons and mangoes we saw for sale on the road.
Against the larger‑than‑life figures of Pia and Nayyar, kissing mangoes as they mouthed to playback music, the figure of a timorous, inadequately bearded man was seen, marching on to the stage beneath the screen, microphone in hand.
While my uncle sat on chlorophyll‑striped sofa pounding out scripts which nobody would ever film, I listened to the nostalgic soliloquy of my aunt, trying to keep my eyes away from two impossible orbs, spherical as melons, golden as mangoes: I refer, you will have guessed, to the adorable breasts of Pia mumani.
As a young bat, he had stopped there to rest after leaving Guam, his birthplace, on his way to someplace where the mangoes were sweet and the natives did not consider fruit bat a delicacy.
The sea breeze bore her scent to him, a sweet musk that reminded him of mangoes left ripening in the sun.
A sweet, musky odor that reminded him of mangoes left ripening in the sun.
His chest tightened as with the onset of tears, but the sensation quickly abated, and he understood that the sweetness of the past had been subsumed by a scent of mangoes, that nine magical days—a magical number of days, the number it takes to sing the soul to rest—lay between him and tears.