monkey-bread tree

Questions about monkey-bread tree

What is another word for monkey-bread tree?

It depends which monkey-bread tree you mean. In the sense “African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread”, the synonyms are baobab, Adansonia digitata. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of monkey-bread tree?

WordNet records no antonym for monkey-bread tree. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for monkey-bread tree come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of monkey-bread tree

• Full entry for monkey-bread treeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for monkey-bread treeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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