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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for adansonia digitata come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.