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MANGOSTEEN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("mangosteen" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("mangosteen" is a part of...):

Garcinia mangostana; mangosteen; mangosteen tree (East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit

Synonyms:

Garcinia mangostana; mangosteen; mangosteen tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mangosteen" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "mangosteen"):

mangosteen (two- to three-inch tropical fruit with juicy flesh suggestive of both peaches and pineapples)

Holonyms ("mangosteen" is a member of...):

Garcinia; genus Garcinia (evergreen trees and shrubs: mangosteens)

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