monkey bread

American  

noun

1. the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.

2. the tree itself.

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monkey bread British  

noun

1. the gourdlike fruit of the baobab tree

2. another name for baobab

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Etymology

Origin of monkey bread

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

Baobab, bā′o-bab, n. a magnificent tree, native to tropical Western Africa, whose trunk is 20 to 30 feet thick, called also the Monkey-bread Tree.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various