noun
mango
MANG-goh
noun
1
A tropical tree, or its sweet, juicy orange-fleshed fruit.
"She sliced a ripe mango for the fruit salad."
"Mango trees can grow for decades and produce fruit every year."
How to Use Mango
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA tropical fruit with sweet orange flesh, or the tree it grows on.
Common pairings
ripe mango
mango juice
mango chutney
Word Forms
mangoed past tense, mangoes plural, mangos plural, mangoes singular
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Etymology
Borrowed via Portuguese manga from a South Indian word combining terms for "mango tree" and "unripe fruit." First recorded in English for the fruit in the 1580s.