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Pacific islanders' cash crop?
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breadfruit
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Breadfruit ( Artocarpus altilis ) is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry and Jackfruit family ( Moraceae ) originating in the South Pacific and that was eventually spread to the rest of Oceania . British and French navigators introduced a few Polynesian ...
WordNet
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n. native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread [syn: breadfruit tree , Artocarpus communis , Artocarpus altilis ] round seedless or seeded fruit with a bread-like texture; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He became an expert on breadfruit .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An evergreen tree, (taxlink Artocarpus altilis species noshow=1), native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean. 2 The large round fruit of this tree.
Usage examples of breadfruit.
Casuarina, candlenut and kauri pine flourished in abundance beside breadfruit, sago plant, oranges, pineapple, sweet banana and of course the inevitable coconut palm.
So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily.
He served Bink a pleasant meal of brown bread and milk--from his private breadfruit orchard and deerfly stable, respectively--and chatted almost sociably.
They were rolling on a scene where Eli Hathaway, playing a middle-aged Elson Wellbright, steps out of the shadow of those breadfruit trees and walks slowly toward the stones.
One kind of gooma looks and tastes quite like a mango, another resembles a cross between bananas and breadfruit.
The ship which Bligh now commanded was specially fitted to convey specimens of the breadfruit tree from Tahiti--the Otaheite of Cook--to the West Indies, in the hope that the tree would there take root and flourish and furnish as bountiful a food supply to the negroes of those islands as it did to the light, copper-coloured people of the isles of the Pacific.
We rode through the same abandoned pae-paes, but as we neared the sea we found a profusion of cocoanuts, breadfruit trees and taro patches, and fully a dozen grass dwellings.
There were yams, taro, feis, breadfruit, cocoanuts, oranges, limes, pineapples, watermelons, alligator pears, pomegranates, fish, chickens galore crowing and cackling and laying eggs on our decks, and a live pig that squealed infernally and all the time in apprehension of imminent slaughter.
Island, save Minarii and his wife, was there by the ovens, still covered with heaps of matting and breadfruit leaves.
Her errand was an unusual one: to procure on that remote island a thousand or more young plants of the breadfruit tree, and to convey them to the British plantations in the West Indies, where it was hoped that they might provide a supply of cheap food for the slaves.
A little back from the beach, and not half a mile from Anaho, I was the more amazed to find a cluster of well-doing breadfruits heavy with their harvest.
I have walked in one, with equal admiration and surprise, through a forest of huge breadfruits, eating bananas and stumbling among taro as I went.
A few people had also been cutting pineapples and picking papayas and breadfruits from existing trees.
When she woke, Captain Janders inquired if she 'would like some ship's food, but she refused haughtily and ordered her servants to lift great calabashes of food from the canoe, so that while the mission wives perspired over the tentlike dress they were building, she reclined and feasted on gigantic portions of roast pig, breadfruit, baked dog, fish and three quarts of purple poi.
Nutmeg, cinnamon, guava, fig and coconut-palm grew in the vast cultivations, and the strange jak tree with its heroic fifty-pound fruit hanging from the trunk, and its brother the breadfruit tree, in the guise of the champion of watermelon plants.