mango : Idioms & Phrases

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Mango bird

  • (Zoöl.), an oriole (Oriolus kundoo), native of India.
Webster 1913

Mango fish

  • (Zoöl.), a fish of the Ganges (Polynemus risua), highly esteemed for food. It has several long, slender filaments below the pectoral fins. It appears about the same time with the mango fruit, in April and May, whence the name.
Webster 1913

Mango tree

  • noun large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
    mango; Mangifera indica.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), an East Indian tree of the genus Mangifera (M. Indica), related to the cashew and the sumac. It grows to a large size, and produces the mango of commerce. It is now cultivated in tropical America.
Webster 1913

wild mango

  • noun African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites
    Irvingia gabonensis; wild mango; dika.
WordNet

wild mango tree

  • noun African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites
    Irvingia gabonensis; wild mango; dika.
WordNet