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mangustan

mangustan is the archaic form of mangosteen.

Meaning of mangosteen

Noun

mangosteen (plural mangosteens)

  1. A tropical fruit of the tree genus Garcinia.
    • The Mangosteen, Lansat, Rambutan, Jack, Jambou, and Blimbing, are all abundant; but most abundant and most esteemed is the Durian, a fruit about which very little is known in England, but which both by natives and Europeans in the Malay Archipelago is reckoned superior to all others.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 116
    1. (more specifically) A tropical fruit of the tree Garcinia mangostana.
  2. The tree on which the fruit grows.

Forms of mangustan

pluralmangustans

Questions about mangustan

What is mangustan the archaic form of?
Mangustan is the archaic form of mangosteen.

Words near mangustan in the dictionary

  1. mangue
  2. mangues
  3. Manguisian
  4. Mangum
  5. Mangums
  6. mangustan
  7. mangustans
  8. mangustine
  9. mangustines
  10. mangut
  11. manguts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mangustan (page history and authors); mangosteen (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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