monkey bread

1. 1.

   African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp

   Synonymssour gourd

   Broaderedible fruit

   Part ofbaobab

Questions about monkey bread

What does monkey bread mean?

monkey bread means "African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp".

What is another word for monkey bread?

Close synonyms include sour gourd. 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 monkey bread a common word?

monkey bread 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.