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lanzon

lanzon noun: lansium domesticum, a species of tree in the mahogany family.

lanzon: lansium domesticum, a species of tree in the mahogany family
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Noun

lanzon (plural lanzones)

  1. Lansium domesticum, a species of tree in the mahogany family
  2. (plural-normally) The fruit of this tree
    • San Manuel and the neighboring towns around Mount Banahao, in Laguna, are famous for lanzones. The story goes that it used to be a wild fruit in the mountain that nobody attempted to eat because the locals knew it was poisonous.2010, Leoncio V. Gregana, Into the Change of Time: The Nurse, page 55

Synonyms of lanzon

Forms of lanzon

plurallanzones

Origin of lanzon

See langsat for more.

Questions about lanzon

What does lanzon mean?
Lanzon means lansium domesticum, a species of tree in the mahogany family.
What part of speech is lanzon?
Lanzon is a noun.
What is the plural of lanzon?
The plural of lanzon is lanzones.

Words near lanzon in the dictionary

  1. Lanzillottas
  2. Lanzisera
  3. lanzknecht
  4. lanzknechts
  5. Lanzo
  6. lanzon
  7. lanzones
  8. lanzoprazole
  9. Lanzos
  10. Lao
  11. Lao coriander

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