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单词 mango tree
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mango tree
2. The tree producing this fruit, Mangifera indica of the family Anacardiaceae, which is native to India and Burma (Myanmar) and is much cultivated there and in other tropical countries. Also mango tree.
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1678 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Indian Trav. i. iv. 34 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. All along the high-way, there grows a vast number of great Trees, which they call Mangues.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 175 Mango-Trees.
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 683 We have a compleat History of that Pruniferous Tree, called Mango by the English.
c1796 T. Twining Trav. Amer. (1894) 172 It appears to me that the cajoor-tree of Bengal might be successfully introduced into the Southern States, as also possibly the mango.
1825 Gentleman's Mag. 95 i. 318 The mango, with the ‘bread-fruit tree’ was brought here [i.e. to Jamaica] from Otaheite, about 30 years ago.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. ii. 60 Handsome houses..embowered in mangos, tamarinds, and palmistes.
1903 Pilot 22 Aug. 173/1 Long groves of palm and mango and bamboo.
1966 in J. Figueroa Caribbean Voices I. i. 22 In the close cool orchard The mango sprays her cream Foam on her mountained green.
1988 A. Ghosh Shadow Lines (1989) 198 He taught Robi to climb the mango tree in the middle of the garden.
2004 M. Jackson In Sierra Leone v. 41 For two days, a young steer had been tethered by a short rope to a mango tree at the edge of the compound.
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