baobabn.

/ˈbɑːəʊbab/

Forms: Also 1600s bahobab, boabab.

Etymology: First mentioned by Prosper Alpinus Hist. Nat. Ægypti (Venice 1592), ch. xvii, De Bahobab, who speaks of the use of its fruit ‘in Æthiopia’: apparently, therefore, the name belongs to some central African language.

A tree ( Adansonia digitata), also called ‘Monkey-bread,’ and Ethiopian Sour Gourd, with a stem of enormous thickness, found from Senegal and Abyssinia to Lake Ngami, and long naturalized in Sri Lanka and some parts of India.Considered by Humboldt to be ‘the oldest organic monument of our planet’. The fibres of the bark are used for ropes and cloth.

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baobab1640

Adansonia1763

monkey bread1849

bottle tree1880

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1632 This [Ethiopian Sowre Gourd] is very like to be..the Bahobab of Alpinus.

1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 179 There was also a Bo-gahab Tree growing just by the Fort.

1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) IV. xciv. 310 The African tree called Barbab [sic], described..by Adanson.

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xxviii. 573 We spent a night at a baobab, which was hollow and would hold twenty men inside.

1866 A. Brown in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 18 The fibre [of the bark] is so strong as to give rise to a common saying in Bengal: ‘As secure as an elephant bound with a baobab rope.’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	baobab
释义	baobabn. /ˈbɑːəʊbab/ Forms: Also 1600s bahobab, boabab. Etymology: First mentioned by Prosper Alpinus Hist. Nat. Ægypti (Venice 1592), ch. xvii, De Bahobab, who speaks of the use of its fruit ‘in Æthiopia’: apparently, therefore, the name belongs to some central African language. A tree ( Adansonia digitata), also called ‘Monkey-bread,’ and Ethiopian Sour Gourd, with a stem of enormous thickness, found from Senegal and Abyssinia to Lake Ngami, and long naturalized in Sri Lanka and some parts of India.Considered by Humboldt to be ‘the oldest organic monument of our planet’. The fibres of the bark are used for ropes and cloth. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding fibre, etc. > baobab tree baobab1640 Adansonia1763 monkey bread1849 bottle tree1880 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1632 This [Ethiopian Sowre Gourd] is very like to be..the Bahobab of Alpinus. 1681 R. Knox Hist. Relation Ceylon 179 There was also a Bo-gahab Tree growing just by the Fort. 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) IV. xciv. 310 The African tree called Barbab [sic], described..by Adanson. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xxviii. 573 We spent a night at a baobab, which was hollow and would hold twenty men inside. 1866 A. Brown in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 18 The fibre [of the bark] is so strong as to give rise to a common saying in Bengal: ‘As secure as an elephant bound with a baobab rope.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1640
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