mango

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.

   On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard.

2. 2
   noun

   The fruit of the mango tree.

   And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.

3. 3
   noun

   A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.

   In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.

4. 4
   noun

   A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.

   Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.

5. 5
   verb

   To stuff and pickle (a fruit).

   Although any melon may be used before it is quite ripe, yet there is a particular sort for this purpose, which the gardeners know, and should be mangoed soon after they are gathered.

6. 6
   noun

   large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seed

7. 7
   noun

   large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit

8. 8
   noun

   A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-South Dravidian *mā Proto-South Dravidian *m Proto-South Dravidian *mām Malayalam മാം (māṁ) Proto-Dravidian *kāy Malayalam കായ (kāya) Malayalam -ങ്ങ (-ṅṅa) Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa)bor. Portuguese mangabor. English mango 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.