bread-tree

• “The bread-tree grows in the Philippine islands, and principally in those of Guam and Tinian, as the cocoa-tree grows in the Indies.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “The bread-tree is taller and more bulky than our common apple-trees; its leaves are black, its fruit is yellow, and equal in dimensions to the largest apple.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “While these interesting birds were cooking, Ned prepared the fruit of the bread-tree.”

  Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

• “The carob, or St. John's bread-tree, is plentiful; and the long thick pods which it produces are exported in considerable quantities to Syria and Egypt.”

  The Illustrated London Reading Book

• “Two productions, not less estimable perhaps than gold and silver, are indigenous to this fine country, and increase in the most prodigious manner there; viz. the Lotus, or bread-tree, of the ancients, spoken of by Pliny, and the Shea, or butter-tree, [12] of which the English traveller Mungo Park has given a description.”

  Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.

• “H Episode of guarding king's fruit-tree or bread-tree (Chile peppers).”

  Filipino Popular Tales

• ““The bread-tree, which without the ploughshare yields The unreaped harvest of unfurrowed fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest.””

  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders

• “I received the seeds of the bread-tree. [omission: word (s)] One service of this kind rendered to a nation, is worth more to them than all the victories of the most splendid pages of their history, and becomes a source of exalted pleasure to those who have been instrumental in it. —”

  The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia

• “Thus we found a place where the bread-tree and other fruits, most of them now ripe, grew in abundance, as did the yam.”

  When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot

• “Before the conquest, the people of the Mariannes lived on the fruit of the rima or bread-tree, rice, sago, and other farinaceous plants.”

  Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

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