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bread-fruit|ˈbrɛd-fruːt|
[f. bread n. + fruit.]
The farinaceous fruit of a tree; esp. that furnished by Artocarpus incisa of the South Sea Islands, etc., of the size of a melon, and having a whitish pulp of the consistency of new bread. Also short for ‘Bread-fruit tree’.
1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 296 The Bread-fruit (as we call it) grows on a large Tree as big and high as our largest apple trees..it is as big as a Penny-loaf, when Wheat is at five shillings the Bushel. 1748Anson Voy. iii. ii. (ed. 4) 417 A kind of fruit..called by the Indians Rima, but by us the Bread-Fruit. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) V. 1623 Covered with cocoa-palms and bread-fruit trees. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xviii. (1852) 403 The bread-fruit conspicuous from its large, glossy and deeply digitated leaves. 1866Treas. Bot. I. 96/2 The bread-fruit..is prepared by baking it in an oven heated by hot stones. |