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mangustine

mangustine is the obsolete spelling 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 mangustine

pluralmangustines

Questions about mangustine

What is mangustine the obsolete spelling of?
Mangustine is the obsolete spelling of mangosteen.

Words near mangustine in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mangustine (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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