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breadfruit

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈbɹɛdfɹuːt/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Any of species Artocarpus altilis of evergreen trees, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The large round fruit of this tree.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: edible fruit

4

noun

Meaning 4

native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: breadfruit tree, Artocarpus communis, Artocarpus altilis

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fruit tree

History

Etymology

Calque of taxonomic name Artocarpus; by surface analysis, bread (calque of ἄρτος (ártos)) + fruit (calque of κᾰρπός (kărpós)).

Across languages

Translations

103 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خُبْزِيَّة (ḵubziyya) — tree
  • Arabic: شَجَرَة الخُبْز — tree
  • Central Bikol: kulo — tree
  • Catalan: arbre del pa — tree
  • Cebuano: kulo — tree
  • Chinese Mandarin: 麵包樹 /面包树 (miànbāoshù) — tree
  • Ngazidja Comorian: mfuriapa — tree
  • Danish: brødfrugttræ — tree
  • Esperanto: panarbo — tree
  • Finnish: leipäpuu — tree
  • French: arbre à pain — tree
  • French: artocarpus — tree
  • French: artocarpe — tree
  • German: Brotfruchtbaum — tree
  • Haitian Creole: labapen — tree
  • Hawaiian: ʻulu — tree
  • Ido: artokarpo — tree
  • Igbo: ụkwa — tree
  • Indonesian: pohon sukun — tree
  • Irish: crann toraidh aráin — tree
  • Japanese: パンの木 (pan no ki) — tree
  • Kannada: ದಿವಿಹಲಸು (divihalasu) — tree
  • Kazakh: астық ағашы (astyq ağaşy) — tree
  • Kazakh: нан ағашы (nan ağaşy) — tree
  • Korean: 빵나무 (ppangnamu) — tree
  • Malay: pokok sukun — tree
  • Malay: pohon sukun — tree
  • Malay: pokok kulur — tree
  • Malay: pohon kulur — tree
  • Māori: pōporo — tree
  • Māori: kuru — tree
  • Māori: pōporohua — tree
  • Marshallese: mā — tree
  • Portuguese: fruta-pão — tree
  • Romanian: arbore de pâine — tree
  • Russian: хле́бное де́рево (xlébnoje dérevo) — tree
  • Savosavo: buzu — tree
  • Spanish: árbol del pan — tree
  • Spanish: panapén — tree
  • Swedish: brödfruktträd — tree
  • Tagalog: rimas — tree
  • Thai: สาเก (sǎa-gee) — tree
  • Turkish: ekmek ağacı — tree
  • Ottoman Turkish: اكمك آغاجی (ekmek ağacı) — tree
  • Ulwa (Nicaragua): duputmak — tree
  • Vietnamese: cây sa kê — tree
  • Volapük: bodep — tree
  • Burmese: ပေါင်မုန့်သီး (paungmun.si:) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 麵包果 /面包果 (miànbāoguǒ) — fruit
  • Danish: brødfrugt — fruit
  • Esperanto: panfrukto — fruit
  • Faroese: breyðfrukt — fruit
  • Fijian: uto — fruit
  • Finnish: leipäpuun hedelmä — fruit
  • French: fruit à pain — fruit
  • German: Brotfrucht — fruit
  • Gujarati: નીરફણસ (nīraphṇas) — fruit
  • Haitian Creole: lam veritab — fruit
  • Hawaiian: ʻulu — fruit
  • Hindi: कटहल (kaṭhal) — fruit
  • Ido: artokarpofrukto — fruit
  • Imonda: if — fruit
  • Indonesian: sukun — fruit
  • Irish: toradh aráin — fruit
  • Japanese: パンの木の実 (pan no ki no mi) — fruit
  • Kannada: ದಿವಿಹಲಸು (divihalasu) — fruit
  • Kapampangan: kamansi — fruit
  • Konkani: नीरपणस (nīrpaṇas) — fruit
  • Malay: kulur — fruit
  • Malay: sukun — fruit
  • Brunei Malay: sukun — fruit
  • Māori: kuru — fruit
  • Māori: pōporo — fruit
  • Marathi: नीरफणस (nīraphṇas) — fruit
  • Marshallese: mā — fruit
  • Motu: unu — fruit
  • Norwegian Bokmål: brødfrukt — fruit
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: brødfrukt — fruit
  • Portuguese: fruta-pão — fruit
  • Russian: плод хле́бного де́рева (plod xlébnovo déreva) — fruit
  • Samoan: 'ulu — fruit
  • Samoan Plantation Pidgin: bresprut — fruit
  • Sanskrit: पनस (panasa) — fruit
  • Seychellois Creole: friyapen — fruit
  • Spanish: fruto del árbol del pan — fruit
  • Spanish: fruta de pan — fruit
  • Spanish: buen pan — fruit
  • Spanish: pana — fruit
  • Spanish: frutipán — fruit
  • Swedish: brödfrukt — fruit
  • Tagalog: rimas — fruit
  • Tagalog: kamansi — fruit
  • Tahitian: uru — fruit
  • Tetum: kulu — fruit
  • Thai: สาเก (sǎa-gee) — fruit
  • Tok Pisin: kapiak — fruit
  • Tokelauan: fuāulu — fruit
  • Tolai: kapiaka — fruit
  • Tongan: mei — fruit
  • Turkish: ekmek ağacı — fruit
  • Vietnamese: quả sa kê — fruit
  • Vietnamese: trái sa kê — fruit
  • Volapük: bodepafluk — fruit