mammee
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mammee /maˈmiː/ (also mamee, mamey)
▶noun
- 1 (also mammee apple) a tropical American tree having large edible red fruit with sweet yellow flesh. [Mammea americana.]
- 2 (also mammee sapote) a Central American tree having edible russet fruit with spicy red flesh. [Pouteria sapota.]
– origin C16: from Sp. mamei, from Taino; sapote in sense 2 from Sp. zapote ‘sapodilla’.
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