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Baobab

noun
1.
African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread.  Synonyms: Adansonia digitata, monkey-bread tree.





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"Baobab" Quotes from Famous Books



... about 35,000; there is a small European station near the town. In the course of the evening's drive I saw a specimen of the Addansonia or baobab-tree: the trunk, measuring 23 feet in circumference, was perfectly smooth and the branches were destitute of leaves. There are but five other specimens in India, and not many in Java, where the tree was discovered by Mr. Addanson; ...
— A Journey to Katmandu • Laurence Oliphant
... and still capped by the thick yucca-like tufts. Lastly the digitations grow to enormous arms, sometimes eighteen feet in girth, of light and porous, soft and spongy wood. The tree then resembles the baobab or calabash, the elephant or hippopotamus ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Vol. I • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Baobab" :   monkey bread, genus Adansonia, angiospermous tree, sour gourd, flowering tree, monkey-bread tree, Adansonia, Adansonia digitata


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