adansonia digitata

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   African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread

   Synonymsbaobabmonkey-bread tree

   Broaderangiospermous tree

   Part ofAdansonia

   Partssour gourd

Questions about adansonia digitata

What does adansonia digitata mean?

adansonia digitata means "African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread".

What is another word for adansonia digitata?

Close synonyms include baobab, monkey-bread tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adansonia digitata a common word?

adansonia digitata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.