mapo

mapo (uncountable)

1. Ellipsis of mapo doufu.
   • 2022, Ling Ma, “Peking Duck”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     I look down at my plate, a mound of rice covered with gushy mapo.

From Medieval Latin mappa mundi (literally “sheet of the world”), from Latin Latin mappa (“sheet, napkin”) + mundi (“of the world”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmapo]
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• Rhymes: -apo
• Hyphenation: ma‧po

mapo (accusative singular mapon, plural mapoj, accusative plural mapojn)

1. map, chart (visual representation of an area)

   geografia, geologia, astronomia mapo ― geographic, geological, astronomical map

2. (mathematics) mapping, function

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.po/
• Rhymes: -apo
• Hyphenation: mà‧po

mapo m (invariable)

1. cross between clementine and grapefruit (Citrus paradisi x Citrus reticulata); a kind of tangelo or ugli

• Poma