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say it: BRED-froot
breadfruit is a noun meaning "native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread". It is pronounced /ˈbɹɛdˌfɹut/ — BRED-froot. It carries 2 recorded senses.
native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for breadfruit come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.