garcinia mangostana

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   East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit

   Synonymsmangosteenmangosteen tree

   Broaderfruit tree

   Part ofGarcinia

   Partsmangosteen

Questions about garcinia mangostana

What does garcinia mangostana mean?

garcinia mangostana means "East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit".

What is another word for garcinia mangostana?

Close synonyms include mangosteen, mangosteen tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garcinia mangostana a common word?

garcinia mangostana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.