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baobab /ˈbeɪə(ʊ)bab /nounA short tree with a very thick trunk and large edible fruit, living to a great age.- Genus Adansonia, family Bombacaceae: several species, in particular the African A. digitata and the Australian A. gregorii.
School children will pitch in to help staff at Johannesburg Zoo plant baobabs and false cabbage trees at the zoo on Arbor Day, Friday, 2 September, to celebrate national Arbor Week....- By ten we're stripped to shorts and tee-shirts and have a coffee stop under a giant baobab, the tree Livingstone likened to an upturned carrot.
- Named after the African baobab tree, Vocal Baobab is one of the busiest and most popular folklore troupes in Havana, Cuba.
OriginMid 17th century: probably from an African language; first recorded in Latin (1592), in a treatise on the plants of Egypt by the Italian botanist Prosper Alpinus. |