The Collaborative International Dictionary
mango tree \mango tree\ n. An East Indian tree of the genus Mangifera ( Mangifera Indica), related to the cashew and the sumac. It grows to a large size, and produces a large oval smooth-skinned fruit which is the mango of commerce. It is now cultivated in tropical America.
WordNet
n. large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval smooth-skinned fruit [syn: mango, Mangifera indica]
Usage examples of "mango tree".
A mango tree had sprouted from one of the porches, and wild parrots were eating its fruit.
Hari cut down the Julie mango tree on the raised bed at the end of the garden and built a small, kennel-like box-board hut.
The mango tree and its raft of vegetation was just a scrap of driftwood, broken, rotten, seaweed clinging to it, now washed up on this shore.
Even when he had not been able to walk up to the house and lay under the mango tree below the terrace panting and soaked wet with sweat so you saw how big his shoulders were and how narrow and thin his flanks, lying there, too dead to move, trying to get the air into his lungs, he was never pitiful.
With a quick look around to be sure no one was watching, or showing any undue interest in them, he moved out from the shadow of the mango tree and headed past the irregularly placed houses to where the wide strip of yellow dust marked the street.
The head of the tree had the lovely full roundness of a mango tree, but it was not a mango.
When the coast was clear, he grabbed a shovel from the garage, crept to the backyard and excavated a Tupperware box full of cash that was buried under a mango tree.
They keep calling Hay-lo mee-ster, then ducking back out of sight in the foliage of a mango tree and giggling.
Now six months pregnant, Kaur sat upon a white cane bench beneath the leafy bough of a mango tree, genetically engineered to bear refreshing fruit all year long.
But training did not appeal to her and when first asked to warm up for four laps by the coach, she ran three and then hid behind a mango tree.
Scotty had ditched his pursuers easily by climbing a mango tree and waiting until they passed.
Did you see the bright green grass in the big square patch under the mango tree outside the living room?
A fire of the mango tree, mixed with dried cow-dung, is then kindled.