Baobab

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  • noun. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An African tree, the Adansonia digitata, belonging to the tribe Bombaceæ; natural order Malvaceæ, also called the Ethiopian sour-gourd, and in South Africa the cream-of-tartar tree. It is a native of tropical Africa, and has been introduced and naturalized in various parts of the East and West Indies.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See adansonia.
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  • noun. A tree, Adansonia digitata (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
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  • noun. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
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