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monkey bread

noun

  1. the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
  2. the tree itself.


monkey bread

noun

  1. the gourdlike fruit of the baobab tree
  2. monkey bread tree
    another name for baobab
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of monkey bread1

First recorded in 1780–90
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Example Sentences

Using skewers/tooth picks, attach monkey bread, Cinnabons, and churros to battleship.

It was a calabash tree, otherwise called the monkey-bread tree, which the Woloffs call goui in their language.

The fruit, sometimes called monkey-bread, is about the size of a citron melon.

The pulp of the fruit of the Adansonia digitata, or monkey bread, is also used as an article of food.

You find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants.

At nightfall he slept like a log "under a monkey-bread tree."

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