Tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit

• Tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind
• Brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
• In some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
• Globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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

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

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
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 ] tropical American tree having edible fruit ...