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 mammee
 馬米樹,其果實

 Mam·mee, Mam·mee tree n.  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 ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent.  It is often called mammee apple.
 Syn: -- mammee apple, mammee, mamey, Mammea americana.
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 mammee
      n 1: 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]
      2: tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery
         rind [syn: mammee apple, mamey, mammee tree, Mammea
         americana]
      3: globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery
         rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh [syn: mamey, mammee
         apple]
      4: brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet [syn: sapote,
          marmalade plum]