mangaba

plural mangabas

1. The round, edible fruit of the tree Hancornia speciosa, native to parts of South America.

   The soft, thinskinned fruits of mangaba are gathered from contorted, often fireblackened trees on savannas.

   2002, Nigel JH Smith, Amazon Sweet Sea

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   The cajue, the jabuticaba, the araticu, and the mangaba fruits are common; also oranges, limes, bananas, pine-apples, and water-melons.

   1821, James Henderson, A History of the Brazil, page 262

   Once the Counselor rose to his feet, the women of the Sacred Choir offered him a bowlful of goat's milk, a bit of bread, a dish of boiled cornmeal, and a basketful of mangabas.

   1984, Helen R. Lane, transl., The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, translation of La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa, published 2012, page 181