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breadfruit

/bred-froot/US // ˈbrɛdˌfrut //UK // (ˈbrɛdˌfruːt) //

面包果,面包树,面包果实,面包果子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large, round, starchy fruit borne by a tree, Artocarpus altilis, of the mulberry family, native to the Pacific islands, used, baked or roasted, for food.
    • : the tree bearing this fruit.

Examples

  • Jungles of waxy green—breadfruit and ironwood, pandanus and palm.

  • These include breadfruit, banana, and rubber trees, whose canopies shade the cocoa trees.

  • The Breadfruit is so well known and described that to attempt a new account of it would be unnecessary and useless.

  • The breadfruit trees are planted, and flourish with great luxuriance, on rising grounds.

  • We then went across the beach and through a walk delightfully shaded with breadfruit trees to his own house.

  • On arriving at the landing-place I saw a large quantity of breadfruit with some hogs ready dressed and a quantity of cloth.

  • In this division they keep a small interval called Tawa in which they do not use the breadfruit.