mammee

Noun

• brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet

• globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh

• tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind

• tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  sapote , marmalade plum , mamey , mammee apple , mammee tree , Mammea americana , marmalade tree , Pouteria zapota , Calocarpum zapota