breadfruit
noun
a large, round, starchy fruit borne by a tree, Artocarpus altilis, of the mulberry family, native to the Pacific islands, used, baked or roasted, for food.
breadfruits
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pluralof breadfruit.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I have walked in one, with equal admiration and surprise, through a forest of huge breadfruits, eating bananas and stumbling among taro as I went.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
He has no idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual destitution of a coral reef in the Pacific, or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the cocoanuts and breadfruits.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
It is in the counting of breadfruit only,202 4 breadfruits = 1 pona = 4.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
To the west, a swift cold river ran down, and beyond was the green of the village, dotted with cocoa-palms and breadfruits and houses.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
To the west, a swift cold river ran down, and beyond was the green of the village, dotted with cocoa-palms and breadfruits and houses.
From Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson
