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Breadfruit tree   /brˈɛdfrˌut tri/   Listen
Breadfruit tree

noun
1.
Native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread.  Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit.






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"Breadfruit tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... melancholy truth of man's mortality runs thus. Kosi, the chief of Moakareng, was in his house. He was hungry. He said to his two sons, "Go and climb the breadfruit trees and bring the fruit, that we may eat them together and not die." But they would not. So he went himself and climbed the breadfruit tree. But the north-west wind blew a storm, it blew and threw him down. He fell and his body died, but his ghost went home. He went and sat in his house. He tied up his hair and he painted his face with red ochre. Now his wife ...
— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer

... was the celebrated Bounty, which had been fitted up for the express purpose of proceeding to the island of Otaheite, (now named Tahiti), in the Pacific for plants of the breadfruit tree, it being thought desirable to introduce that tree into the West India Islands. We may remark in passing, that the transplantation was afterwards accomplished, though ...
— The Lonely Island - The Refuge of the Mutineers • R.M. Ballantyne



Words linked to "Breadfruit tree" :   Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus, Artocarpus communis, genus Artocarpus, breadfruit, fruit tree



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