ˈmonkey-bread
Also monkey's bread.
The fruit of the baobab tree; the tree itself.
| 1789 W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis II. 439 Adansonia digitata... Ethiopian Sour Gourd, or Monkies-bread. 1849 Balfour Man. Bot. §784 The Baobab tree of Senegal, or monkey-bread. 1897 M. Kingsley W. Africa 149 Dr. Pélessier then insists on banging down monkey bread-fruit with a stick, to show me their inside. |