mangoes

Noun

mango (countable and uncountable, plural mangoes or mangos)

1. Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees.
   • 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.1980, Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, page 146
2. 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.1738, October–November, Hans Sloan, Philosophical Transactions, volume 40, number 450, “VI. his Answer to the Marquis de Caumont's Letter, concerning this Stone”, translated from the Latin by Thomas...
3. 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.2004, Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, page 335
4. (US, dated, chiefly southern Midland US) 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.1879, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania, page 222
5. A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
6. Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.

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