monkey bread
noun
the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
the tree itself.
QUIZZES
How Hip Is Your Lingo? Take Our Slang Quiz!
If you aren’t already skilled in slang, then this quiz can get you up to speed in no time!
Question 1 of 11
OK Boomer can be perceived as pejorative, but it is mostly considered to be _____
Origin of monkey bread
First recorded in 1780–90
Words nearby monkey bread
monk's pepper tree, monkery, monkey, monkey bars, monkey block, monkey bread, monkey bridge, monkey business, monkey climb, monkey fist, monkey flower
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020
Example sentences from the Web for monkey bread
It was a calabash tree, otherwise called the monkey-bread tree, which the Woloffs call goui in their language.
Perils and Captivity|Charlotte-Adlade [ne Picard] DardYou find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants.
The Pools of Silence|H. de Vere StacpooleAt nightfall he slept like a log "under a monkey-bread tree."
British Dictionary definitions for monkey bread
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