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mango

Pronunciation: /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/

The English word “mango” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees.
  2. Fruit of the mango tree.
  3. A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
  4. A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
  5. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
  6. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
  7. A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
  8. The breasts.

verb

  1. To stuff and pickle (a fruit).

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese manga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa) / Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), possibly via Malay mangga, ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian *mām-kāy (“unripe mango”), a compound of *mām (“mango tree”) + *kāy (“unripe fruit”). First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s. The etymology of the -o ending is not certain.

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