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Definition of Adansonia

1. Noun. Baobab; cream-of-tartar tree.

Definition of Adansonia

1. n. A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth.

Definition of Adansonia

1. Noun. Any member of the tree genus ''Adansonia'', the baobabs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Adansonia

1. A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. Digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. Origin: From Adanson, a French botanist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Adansonia

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1. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1868)
"IN our last paper on the African species of adansonia, we stated that the genus mustered only two species, one, as we there showed, a native of Africa, ..."

2. Madagascar, Mauritius and Other East-African Islands by Conrad Keller (1901)
"When we pass the belt of forest and reach the high land of the interior, the character of the vegetation be- Baobab (adansonia Grandidieri). ..."

3. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1870)
"... and other trees by a species of Lamia. iz rapid destruction of the large adansonia in Colaba, ..."

4. Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty by Fanny Parkes Parlby (1850)
"... adansonia—Little Jack Bunce—Encampment of the Governor-general—Ashes of a Rajah consigned to the Ganges— Christmas-boxes. 1829, Oct.—Snakes are very ..."

5. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"adansonia digitata, Linn., Cav. Diss. v., 298,1.15. The fruit, bark and leaves. • Vernacular.—Gorakh amlf (Hind.), Gorakh chintz, Churl chintz (Bomb. ..."

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