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Definition of Breadfruits
1. breadfruit [n] - See also: breadfruit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breadfruits
Literary usage of Breadfruits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pearls of the Pacific: Being Sketches of Missionary Life and Work in Samoa by Victor Arnold Barradale (1907)
"If you are like me, you would get as far away as possible when the pit is being
opened, because the breadfruits have partly decayed and the smell is very ..."
2. South Sea Foam: The Romantic Adventures of a Modern Don Quixote in the by Arnold Safroni-Middleton (1920)
"The very silence of that South Sea forest and the gleam of the sea horizon—just
visible through the woods of mighty breadfruits—gave one's imagination the ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1907)
"Villages of irregularly scattered houses and huts lie between the wild tropical
woods and the partly wild growths of coconuts, breadfruits, ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (1875)
"That " studded archipelago," so rich in cotton, sugar, spices, drugs, dyes,
breadfruits, and every kind of tropical produce, is now British territory, ..."
5. Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic by Raymond Melbourne Weaver (1921)
"They had clearings with cocoanuts and breadfruits, but they cared no longer to
cultivate them, preferring rather to sit sadly in the curling fumes and dream ..."
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