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mahoes

mahoes is the plural of mahoe.

Meaning of mahoe

Noun (1)

mahoe (plural mahoes)

  1. Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean.
    • The green flanks of the uplands, all feathered with bamboo interspersed with the dark, glinting green of breadfruit and the sudden Bengal fire of Flame of the Forest, gave way to the lower forests of ebony, mahogany, mahoe and logwood.1954, Ian Fleming, “The Undertaker's Wind”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 181
    1. Talipariti elatum (syn. Hibiscus elatus, blue mahoe)
    2. Talipariti tiliaceum (syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus, seaside mahoe)
    3. Thespesia populnea (seaside mahoe)

Noun (2)

mahoe (plural mahoes)

  1. Alectryon macrococcus, a tree in the soapberry family, endemic to Hawaii.
  2. Any tree of genus Melicytus, in the violet family, known from southeastern Australia and New Zealand, especially Melicytus ramiflorus.

Questions about mahoes

What is mahoes the plural of?
Mahoes is the plural of mahoe.

Words near mahoes in the dictionary

  1. Mahoba
  2. mahobohobo
  3. Mahock
  4. Mahocks
  5. mahoe
  6. mahoes
  7. mahoffi
  8. mahoffis
  9. mahoganee
  10. mahoganey
  11. mahoganies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mahoes (page history and authors); mahoe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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