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wolf | mango |

As a proper noun wolf

is the constellation or wolf can be .

As a noun mango is

mango.

wolf

English

Noun

(wolves)
  • A large wild canid of certain subspecies of Canis lupus .
  • A man who makes amorous advances on many women.
  • (music) A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf.
  • One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
  • (figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.
  • * , chapter=7
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  • A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
  • (obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side.
  • A willying machine.
    • (Knight)
    (Webster 1913)

    Hypernyms

    * (large wild canid) Canis lupus , canid

    Hyponyms

    * (large wild canid) she-wolf

    Coordinate terms

    * (large wild canid) dingo, dog ; coyote, jackal, fox (other canids)

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "wolf") * Big Bad Wolf * cry wolf * grey wolf, gray wolf * Mexican wolf * raised by wolves * red wolf * sea wolf * she-wolf * Tasmanian wolf * werewolf * white wolf * wolf cub * wolf down * wolf in sheep's clothing * wolf interval * wolfie * wolfish * wolflike * wolf tone * wolven

    Verb

  • To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.
  • * 1987 , James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
    • After a wolfed burger dinner, I called the night number at Administrative Vice and inquired about known lesbian gathering places.
  • * 2013 , Neil Martin, Collected Stories of the Sea
    • Vicars seated himself and began wolfing a sandwich.

    Synonyms

    * gulp down, wolf down

    External links

    * (wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    mango

    English

    (wikipedia mango) (Mangifera indica) (Cucumis melo) (Anthracothorax)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (botany) A tropical Asian fruit tree, .
  • The fruit of the mango tree.
  • * 1738 , October–November, (Hans Sloan), Philosophical Transactions , volume 40, number 450, “VI. his Answer to the Marquis de Caumont's Letter, concerning this Stone”, translated from the Latin by (Thomas Stack), (Royal Society) (1741), page 376:
    • And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango .
  • A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been .
  • * 2004 , Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea , page 335
    • In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.
  • A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
  • * 1879 , Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania , Page 222
    • Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.
  • * 1896 , Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report , Page 154
    • Best mango peppers
  • * {{quote-news, 1943, August 9, Mary Adgate, Stuffed Mangoes, The Lima News, city=Lima, Ohio, page=5 citation
    • , passage=Cut tops from mangoes ; remove seeds.}}
  • * 2000 , Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today , page 41
    • Finally, although both the South and North Midlands are not known for their tropical climate, that's where mangoes grow. These aren't the tropical fruit, though, but what are elsewhere called green peppers.
  • A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo .
  • Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax .
  • (colour) A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • (uncommon) To stuff and pickle (a fruit).
  • * 1870 , Hannah Mary Peterson, The Young Wife's Cook Book , page 444:
    • Although any melon may be used before it is quite ripe, yet there is a particular sort for this purpose, which the gardeners know, and should be mangoed soon after they are gathered.
  • * 1989 , William Woys Weaver, America eats: forms of edible folk art :
    • In an effort to reproduce the pickle, English cooks took to "mangoing " all sorts of substitutes, from cucumbers to unripe peaches. Americans, however, preferred baby musk melons, or, in areas where they did not grow well, bell peppers.
  • * 2008 , Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld, Pickles To Relish (ISBN 1589804899), page 66:
    • For this cookbook, I made mangoed peppers that were not stuffed with cabbage, but stuffed with green and red tomatoes and onions.

    References

    * (bell peppers) The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia

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