adansonia
Adansonia
Ad`an*so"ni*a\, n. [From Adanson, a French botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. --D. C. Eaton.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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| adansonia | |
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| baobab; cream-of-tartar tree |
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Adansonia
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