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Breadfruit   /brˈɛdfrˌut/   Listen
Breadfruit

noun
1.
Native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread.  Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree.
2.
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.






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"Breadfruit" Quotes from Famous Books



... breadfruit tree, which is quite abundant on Gueboroa Island, and there I chiefly noted the seedless variety that in Malaysia ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... pursued its daily routine. Some of the women washed clothing in the shallows, although the water seemed dirtier than the garments. Men and women, both, cut plantains and bananas and breadfruit, and scratched gardens with crooked sticks. Children played about, and a few canoes pushed out, to go fishing. But nobody worked any too fast. The sun beat down hotly, the air was moist and heavy, monkeys and parrots ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin

... to hear from the depths of Colombia; school days are so far gone by I had to look it up on the map. Is it very hot there, and do you live on bananas and breadfruit? I don't mind showing how little I know, because then you may tell me about it. I am really going to read up concerning South America at once, so that I may be an intelligent if not ...
— The Brown Study • Grace S. Richmond



Words linked to "Breadfruit" :   Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree, fruit tree, edible fruit, genus Artocarpus



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