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Definition of Monkey bread
1. Noun. African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp.
Generic synonyms: Edible Fruit
Group relationships: Adansonia Digitata, Baobab, Monkey-bread Tree
Definition of Monkey bread
1. Noun. a type of gourd, the fruit of the baobab tree, eaten by monkeys ¹
2. Noun. the tree itself ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monkey Bread
Literary usage of Monkey bread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an by Heinrich Barth (1896)
"... or monkey-bread-tree, branching off from the ground into three separate trunks ;
at least, I never remember to have seen any thing like it, although the ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"[Eng.] monkey-bread (mung'ki-bred), n. The fruit of the baobab-tree; also, ...
Foliage, bruit and Flower of Monkey- bread Tree (Adansonia digitata). ..."