Crossword clues for baobab
baobab
- Gigantic tropical tree
- Bad smell around a wee stunted tree
- Indian holy man with book hugs old tree
- Two graduates introducing book about old African tree
- Tree where duck engaged by trilling notes?
- Tropical tree
- Monkey-bread tree
- Tropical tree with a thick trunk
- Tree whose trunk may reach 30 feet in diameter
- Tree of Life, in "The Lion King"
- Old World fruit tree
- Monkey bread source
- Broad-trunked tropical tree
- Tropical African tree
- Its fruit is monkey bread
- Thick-trunked tropical tree
- Thick-trunked tree
- Tree with a gourdlike fruit
- Monkey bread tree
- Tree that's home to Rafiki in "The Lion King"
- Thick-trunked African tree
- With 25-Across, it has a huge trunk
- African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
- African tree with hanging fruit
- Broad-trunked tree
- Graduates gather round old British tree
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from Medieval Latin bahobab (1590s), apparently from a central African language.
Wiktionary
n. A tree, ''Adansonia digitata'' (and similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.
WordNet
n. African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread [syn: monkey-bread tree, Adansonia digitata]
Wikipedia
Baobab may refer to:
- Baobab tree
- Baobab College
- Disk Usage Analyzer - previously called "Baobab"
- Orchestra Baobab (band)
- Production Baobab
- The Golden Baobab Prize
Usage examples of "baobab".
Vanessa unpacks the picnic basket while I run around trying to find intact baobab pods so that we can crack open their hairy shells and suck the sour white powder off the seeds.
The chief warder, a swarthy man with immense moustaches, came out into the courtyard, sampled the air, approved, and strolled over to a stone seat under the baobab tree.
The broad aisles of baobab and shea trees tangled and vanished, leaving the safari hacking its way among close-set, scaly doum-palms.
All around him the baobab trees towered, except directly back of the lodge, where the mountain began.
After a while, Kit worked his way up to the top of a giant baobab to get a look at the stars.
To the casual eye the great trunk of the dead baobab tree looked like one of a thousand others spread about the northeast coastal plain of Natal Province, South Africa.
There was, however, one startling difference that set this dead baobab tree apart from the others: its trunk was hollowed out and a man crouched inside, intently peering through a small aperture with a pair of binoculars.
The water splashed down his legs to his hooves and flowed on out of the baobab tree, tapering off as its volume diminished.
I had to reach you, before the Mundanes get to the baobab tree and wipe out all the bottled spells or use them against us!
Chet and Chem Centaur had evidently been out to the baobab tree and carried in the latest victim.
They swirled around the chamber of the baobab tree and whipped the surface of the rising water into froth.
It reminded her of the baobab of Madagascar, but that had evolved in dry conditions.
We were sitting under a baobab tree, a weird, muscled sculpture with branches like roots sprouting white, starlike flowers, drinking the rum and talking about the locals.
God has become a baobab with ladybugs for leaves, a million-story high-rise that sings through its doors and windows, an umbrella that turns raindrops into candy.
As far as the eye could reach the bushveld rolled its scrub like the scrawled foliage a child draws on a slate, with here and there a baobab swimming unsteadily in the glare.