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Mangosteen

noun

East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit. Synonyms: Garcinia mangostana, mangosteen tree.

Two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples.

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"Mangosteen" Quotes from Famous Books

... exclaimed Verkimier with enthusiasm. "Look at zat tree-fern. You have not'ing like zat in England—eh! I have found nearly von hoondred specimens of ferns. Zen, look at zee fruit-trees. Ve have here, you see, zee Lansat, Mangosteen, Rambutan, Jack, Jambon, Blimbing ant many ozers—but zee queen of fruits is zee Durian. Have ...

— Blown to Bits - or, The Lonely Man of Rakata • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... in times past by the Dayaks' ancestors, and every tree had its owner, but they had become mixed up with many beautiful wild tropic growths which had sprung up between the trees. Some of these fruit-trees, such as the "durian," "rambutan," mango, mangosteen, "tamadac" or jackfruit, "lansat" and bananas, were familiar to me, but there were a great number of fruits that I had never heard of before, and I got their names ...

— Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines • H. Wilfrid Walker

Words linked to "Mangosteen" : genus Garcinia, mangosteen tree, fruit tree, Garcinia, edible fruit