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MANGO . The mango-See also: - TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree (Mangifera indica, natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order Anacardiaceae) is a native of tropical See also:Asia, but is now extensively cultivated in the tropical and subtropical regions of the New as well as the Old See also:World. It is indigenous in See also:India at the See also:base of the Himalayas, and in Further India and the Andaman Islands (see A. de See also:Candolle, Origin of Cultivated See also:Plants). The cultivation of the See also:fruit must have spread at an See also:early See also:age over the See also:Indian See also:Peninsula, and it now grows 'everywhere in the plains. It grows rapidly to a height of 30 to 40 ft., and its dense, spreading and glossy foliage would secure its cultivation for the See also:sake of its shade and beauty alone. Its fruit, a drupe, though in the See also:wild variety (not to be confused with that of Spondias mangifera, belonging to the same order, also called wild mango in India) stringy and sour, from its containing much gallic See also:acid, and with a disagreeable flavour of See also:turpentine, has become sweet and luscious through culture and selection, to which we owe many varieties, differing not only in flavour but also in See also:size, from that of a See also:plum to that of an See also:apple. When unripe, they are used to make pickles, tarts and preserves; ripe, they See also:form a wholesome and very agreeable dessert. In times of scarcity the kernels also are eaten. The See also:timber, although soft and liable to decay, serves for See also:common purposes, and, mixed with See also:sandal-See also:wood, is employed in See also:cremation by the See also:Hindus. It is usually propagated by grafts, or by layering or inarching, rather than by See also:seed.
See G. See also:Watt, See also:Dictionary of the Economic Products of India (1891).
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