Meaning of mangosteen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tropical fruit of the tree genus Garcinia.
2. A tropical fruit of the tree Garcinia mangostana.
3. The tree on which the fruit grows.

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Examples

“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.”

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