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The
seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent
plant.

&fist; The fruit has a ruddy brown shell, and a delicate white
pulp which is sweet and eatable. The bark is astringent, and is used
for tanning leather. The black and the white mangrove (Avicennia
nitida and A. tomentosa) have much the same habit.

2. (Zoöl.) The mango
fish.

||Mangue (?), n. [F.]
(Zoöl.) The kusimanse.

Man"gy (?), a.
[Compar. Mangier (?);
superl. Mangiest.] [F. mangé,
p. p. of manger to eat. See Manger.] Infected with
the mange; scabby.

Man*ha"den (?), n. See
Menhaden.

Man"head (?), n. Manhood.
[Obs.] Chaucer.

Man"hole` (?), n. A hole through
which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler,
parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.

Man"hood, n.

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