mango

[ mang-goh ]

noun,plural man·goes, man·gos.

the oblong, sweet fruit of a tropical tree, Mangifera indica, of the cashew family, eaten ripe, or preserved or pickled.
the tree itself.

Midland U.S. chiefly the Ohio Valley. a sweet pepper.
Ornithology. any of several large hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.

Origin of mango

1575–85; <Portuguese manga, probably <Malayalam māṅṅa

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How to use mango in a sentence

All its fruits were mangoes, plantains and jacks; not cold apples or icy quinces.
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Mohammad Hanif's first novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes, was long listed for the 2008 Booker.
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The thought of her mailing the check was so repulsive I stopped eating the mangoes cold.
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Basil, cucumber, mangoes, the cooing of turtledoves on torrid afternoons, the screech of buses coming to a sudden halt.
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He digs peanut butter out of bamboo shoots and sucks on frozen hemp milk and munches on mangoes and sweet potatoes and grapes.
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Summoning a fruit-seller, the bearer led the Gwalior men to the rendezvous named and distributed mangoes amongst them.
The Red Year | Louis Tracy
In India everything is shown in the open, and the mangoes lie in baskets piled up one above the other like little hills.
Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal Mukerji
And you know that mangoes taste very much like strawberries and cream with sugar on them.
Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal Mukerji
When we had reached a mountain of mangoes round the corner of a lane, the monkey jumped off and climbed up to the top of the pile.
Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal Mukerji
Cuco come out in his boat, putting it under the ship's side, and crying up to us to buy his mangoes.
The Belted Seas | Arthur Colton

British Dictionary definitions for mango

mango

/ (ˈmæŋɡəʊ) /

nounplural -goes or -gos

a tropical Asian anacardiaceous evergreen tree, Mangifera indica, cultivated in the tropics for its fruit
the ovoid edible fruit of this tree, having a smooth rind and sweet juicy orange-yellow flesh

Origin of mango

C16: via Portuguese from Malay mangā, from Tamil mānkāy from mān mango tree + kāy fruit

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