monkey-bread tree

What does monkey-bread tree mean?

monkey-bread tree 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 monkey-bread tree?

Close synonyms include baobab, Adansonia digitata. 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 tree a common word?

monkey-bread tree 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 monkey-bread tree come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.