mango
Other forms: mangoes; mangos
A mango is a sweet tropical fruit, and it's also the name of the trees on which the fruit grows. Ripe mangoes are juicy, fleshy, and delicious.
Like peaches and plums, mangoes have an inedible pit at the center. Unlike these other fruits, the skin of a mango is very tough and also inedible. Mangoes grow in the warm climate of South Asia, and are the official nationalal fruit of Pakistan, India, and the Philippines. This tasty fruit was first imported to North America in the 17th century in a pickled form. Mango comes from the Tamil word mankay, "mango tree fruit."
Definitions of mango
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large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruitsynonyms: Mangifera indica, mango treetype of:fruit treetree bearing edible fruit
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large oval tropical fruit having smooth skin, juicy aromatic pulp, and a large hairy seedtype of:edible fruitedible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
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