Meanings
plural lanzones
- Lansium domesticum, a species of tree in the mahogany family
- plural normallyThe fruit of this tree
San Manuel and the neighboring towns around Mount Banahao, in Laguna, are famous for lanzones. The story goes that it used to be a wild fruit in the mountain that nobody attempted to eat because the locals knew it was poisonous.
2010, Leoncio V. Gregana, Into the Change of Time: The Nurse, page 55
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
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