irvingia gabonensis

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   African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites

   Synonymswild mangodikawild mango tree

   Broaderfruit tree

   Part ofIrvingia

   Partsdika nut

Questions about irvingia gabonensis

What does irvingia gabonensis mean?

irvingia gabonensis means "African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites".

What is another word for irvingia gabonensis?

Close synonyms include wild mango, dika, wild mango 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 irvingia gabonensis a common word?

irvingia gabonensis 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.