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Baobab

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Noun

1. adansonia digitata, baobab, monkey-bread tree

African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Baobab

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noun
a bombacaceous tree, Adansonia digitata, native to Africa, that has a very thick trunk, large white flowers, and a gourdlike fruit with an edible pulp called monkey bread
. Also called: bottle tree, monkey bread tree

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Baobab

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noun
a thick-trunked tree (Adansonia digitata) of the bombax family, native to Africa: fiber from its bark is used for making rope, paper, etc., and the gourdlike fruit has an edible pulp

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Baobab

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n.
Any of several trees of the genus Adansonia of Africa, Madagascar, and Australia, especially the tropical African species A. digitata, having palmately compound leaves, edible gourdlike fruits, and a broad trunk that stores water.

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