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noun
A tree, Adansonia digitata, native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: African baobab, cream of tartar tree, monkey bread, sour gourd, tabaldi, tebeldi, upside-down tree
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any tree of the genus Adansonia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: monkey-bread tree, Adansonia digitata
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
History
Borrowed from Medieval Latin bahobab, from Arabic أَبُو حِبَاب (ʔabū ḥibāb, “father of many seeds”), from أَبُو (ʔabū, “father”) + حَبّ (ḥabb, “seed”).
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