Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the Philippine Islands, the kamagon, Diospyros discolor, which bears an edible fruit covered with down. Also called talang. See kamagon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies.
  • noun The edible fruit of this tree.

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Examples

  • After the guachinango had buried the devil, he went to the mabolo-tree and took the money.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Its fruit is the mabolo, or date-plum. kasamá: Tenants on the land of another, to whom they render payment in produce or by certain specified services. kogon: A tall, rank grass used for thatch. kris: A Moro dagger or short sword with a serpentine blade. kundíman: A native song. kupang: A large tree of the Mimosa family. kuriput: Miser, "skinflint." lanson: The langsa, a delicious cream-colored fruit about the size of a plum.

    The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878

  • They are the same group of people who sponsored a channel in skycable where I have my love at first sight at you! haha my friend told me that you are visiting cebu every first monday of the month, at the mabolo church … be sure to prepare ice cream and spaghetti Bro Bo haha! and please meet me there,

    BoSanchez.ph 2008

  • They are the same group of people who sponsored a channel in skycable where I have my love at first sight at you! haha my friend told me that you are visiting cebu every first monday of the month, at the mabolo church … be sure to prepare ice cream and spaghetti Bro Bo haha! and please meet me there,

    BoSanchez.ph 2008

  • They are the same group of people who sponsored a channel in skycable where I have my love at first sight at you! haha my friend told me that you are visiting cebu every first monday of the month, at the mabolo church … be sure to prepare ice cream and spaghetti Bro Bo haha! and please meet me there,

    BoSanchez.ph 2008

  • "Dig the ground near the stump of that mabolo-tree.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

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  • See also velvet apple.

    June 15, 2009