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bread-tree|ˈbrɛdtriː| [f. bread + tree.] A name sometimes given to the bread-fruit tree; also to several other trees of which the produce is used as food, as Gardenia edulis, Encephalartos caffer.
1786tr. Sparrman's Voy. I. 346 On a height..grew the bread-tree (brood-boom) of the Hottentots. 1823Byron Island ii. xi, The bread-tree..yields The unreap'd harvest of unfurrow'd fields. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. vi. 204 The Hottentot bread-tree, a species of palm. |