Definition of baobab Baobab

ba•o•bab

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WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: baobabs

baobab - African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
  monkey-bread tree, Adansonia digitata
  angiospermous tree, flowering tree any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
  adansonia, genus adansonia baobab; cream-of-tartar tree
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= antonym
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • baobab (n.)
    A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • baobab
    Genus of big trees (Adansonia) from the mallow family, growing in tropical countries

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • baobab
    bā′o-bab, n. a magnificent tree, native to tropical Western Africa, whose trunk is 20 to 30 feet thick, called also the Monkey-bread Tree. [African.]

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