Definitions
Juicy tropical fruit with orange flesh and a large seed.
Word origin
Borrowed from Portuguese manga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa) / Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), possibly via Malay mangga, ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian *mām-kāy (“unripe mango”), a compound of *mām (“mango tree”) + *kāy (“unripe fruit”). First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s. The etymology of the -o ending is not certain.
Used in a sentence
“On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard.”
“And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.”
“In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Tropical stone fruit”5 letters
02“Orange tropical fruit”5 letters
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