mammea

[Latinized from mammee (q.v.).] Bot.: A genus of Clusiaceæ, tribe Garciniee. The only known species, Mammea american a, the Mammee Apple, or South American Apricot, is a large tree with showy odoriferous flowers. The fruits are mising hostility to every kind of idolatry. But almost the only one of the non-Christian faiths of the world practically known to our ancestors was Mohammedism, and it was made to stand as the type of all false religions, idolatrous as well as non idolatrous. 2. A doll, a puppet; a figure dre ed up. "I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world, To play with mammets , and to tilt with lips." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt . I. , ii. 3. *măm-mět-rous, a. [Eng. mammetr(y); -ous.] Idolatrous. "Their most monstrous ma or mam metro us mazan." Bale : Select Works , p. 165. *măm-mět-ry, s. [MAHOMETRY, MAUMETRY.] 1. Mohammedism. 2. Idolatry. [MAMMET.]