mangoes

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of mango.

   Vendors sold baskets of mangoes along the dusty roadside.

   She blended two ripe mangoes into the morning smoothie.

   Note

   The plural reaches well beyond the fruit stall. It can name trees of Mangifera indica, the fruit itself, or spicy stuffed pickles. It can also mean the green bell peppers that dated US usage called mangoes, a kind of muskmelon, or hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax. The same spelling serves the pickling verb too, so only the sentence tells you whether mangoes are being eaten or made.

2. 2
   nounobsolete

   Plural of mangoe.

   Note

   Here the spelling is identical, but the singular behind it is mangoe, an obsolete way of writing mango. In older text, a plural may rest on that form. In modern writing, mangoes is simply the plural of the everyday fruit name, and the singular to use is mango, never mangoe.

3. 3
   verbrare

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of mango. Rare.

   Note

   A kitchen verb, and an uncommon one. To mango a fruit is to stuff and pickle it, so the verb takes a direct object: she mangoes melons, he mangoes peppers. It grows out of the noun for a spicy stuffed pickle, a fruit or vegetable that has been mangoed. On the page, only the grammar of the sentence separates it from the plural noun.

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