Definition of "mango"

On the hot days, he would lie in the shade of a mango and let little Eugenia clamber over his belly and tug at his beard.

1980, Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouidah, page 146

And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.

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

In Pennsylvania and western Maryland, mangoes were generally made with green bell peppers.

2004, Elizabeth E. Lea, William Woys Weaver, A Quaker Woman's Cookbook: The Domestic Cookery of Elizabeth Ellicott Lea, page 335

Mango peppers by the dozen, if owned by the careful housewife, would gladden the appetite or disposition of any epicure or scold.

1879, Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, Agriculture of Pennsylvania, page 222

Best mango peppers

1896, Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report, page 154

Cut tops from mangoes; remove seeds.

1943 August 9, Mary Adgate, “Stuffed Mangoes”, in The Lima News‎, Lima, Ohio, page 5

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.

2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, page 41

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.

1870, Hannah Mary Peterson, The Young Wife's Cook Book, page 444

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.

1989, William Woys Weaver, America eats: forms of edible folk art

For this cookbook, I made mangoed peppers that were not stuffed with cabbage, but stuffed with green and red tomatoes and onions.

2008, Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld, Pickles To Relish, page 66