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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
mammee is a noun meaning "tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum". It carries 4 recorded senses.
tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind
globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh
brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mammee come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.