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Adansonia

noun
1.
Baobab; cream-of-tartar tree.  Synonym: genus Adansonia.



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Adansonia digitata
Adansonia gregorii


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"Adansonia" Quotes from Famous Books



... banks are magnificent. Two enormous baobabs ('Adansonia digitata'), or mowanas, grow near its confluence with the lake where we took the observations for the latitude (20d 20' S.). We were unable to ascertain the longitude of the lake, as our watches ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone
... These serve in the fabrication of strong brown packing paper, as the fiber will not stand bleaching. According to P. Symmonds, the United States in recent years have largely used bamboo. The rind of the Adansonia digitata also yields an extremely good material; in particular, paper made entirely from New Zealand flax deserves consideration, being, by virtue of its superior toughness, eminently suited ...
— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.


Words linked to "Adansonia" :   monkey-bread tree, sour gourd, cream-of-tartar tree, baobab, family Bombacaceae, dilleniid dicot genus, Bombacaceae


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