mango tree
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- noun
- /ˈmæŋɡoʊ tri/
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mangera
- My mom misses her mango tree, but other than that they are super happy.
- shade of a mango tree
- grove of mango trees
- mango tree dropping fruit
And they'd all have lovely things, mango trees and all that.
- And they'd all have lovely things, mango trees and all that.
Examples
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As long as anybody could remember, that same estate was only bush with one or two mango trees and coconuts growing on it.
Fiction book (2002) -
Sitting on steps in the shade of mango trees playing cards.
Fiction book (1997) -
If I know my horticulture, and I do, this is a grove of mango trees.
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A mango tree in full bloom, its fruits hanging almost vertically, appears behind the cross.
Academic text (2014) -
He sat at the far end of the schoolyard, protected by the shade of a generous mango tree.
Fiction book (1999) -
Before reaching the steepest slope, we passed through a dense grove of mango trees, obviously cultivated by someone.
Academic text (1990) -
Breadfruit and coconut groves grew all around my village, and I resided in a thatched-roof house with no walls beneath a giant mango tree.
Academic text (2003) -
In the backyard, the children enjoyed climbing high into the branches of the mango tree to pick ripe fruit.
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Under the shade of the mango tree, we enjoyed a picnic while savoring the sweet fruit.
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During the summer, the fragrant blossoms of the mango tree attracted many butterflies to the garden.
Synonyms
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A tree that grows fruit you can eat
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A large evergreen tree that produces oval tropical fruit
A large tree with leaves all year that grows sweet mango fruit
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Morphology
The meaning 'a tree that produces mangoes' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'mango' (the fruit/tree) with 'tree' (a perennial plant). This simple noun–noun composition is a basic, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The name mango tree comes from a simple image: a tree that produces mango fruit. People in South Asia have planted these trees for their sweet fruit for a very long time, so the phrase means 'a large tropical tree that produces sweet mangoes'.