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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mar·ma·lade n.  A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistency.
 Marmalade tree Bot., a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a single large seed.  The fruit is called marmalade, or natural marmalade, from its consistency and flavor.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

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