'Adansonia digitata' definitions:

Definition of 'Adansonia digitata'

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noun
African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread [syn: baobab, monkey-bread tree, Adansonia digitata]

Definition of 'Adansonia digitata'

From: GCIDE
  • Monkey-bread \Mon"key-bread`\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Adansonia digitata'

From: GCIDE
  • Baobab \Ba"o*bab\ (b[=a]"[-o]*b[a^]b or b[aum]"[-o]*b[a^]b), n. [The native name.] (Bot.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Adansonia digitata'

From: GCIDE
  • Sour \Sour\, a. [Compar. Sourer; superl. Sourest.] [OE. sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r, Icel. s?rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ. surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant.]
  • 1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. [1913 Webster]
  • All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. "A sour countenance." --Swift. [1913 Webster]
  • He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Afflictive; painful. "Sour adversity." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. [1913 Webster]
  • Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel.
  • Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit {Adansonia Gregorii}, and Adansonia digitata; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia.
  • Sour grapes. See under Grape.
  • Sour gum (Bot.) See Turelo.
  • Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious; crabbed; currish; peevish. [1913 Webster]