breadfruit

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Then every foot of ground from the precipices to the sea was cleared for the breadfruit, the taro, the cocoanut, and other life-giving growths, which sowed themselves and asked no cultivation.

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  1. noun A Malaysian evergreen timber tree (Artocarpus altilis) having large, round, yellowish, edible fruits.
  2. noun The fruit of this tree.

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  • They had a meal of fresh coconut cocoa, breadfruit, and a variety of butters from beach buttercups. —  The Color of Her Panties
  • She sprouted a buttercup plant while Dor plucked a loaf from the breadfruit, and they feasted on fresh bread and butter in silence. —  Centaur Aisle
  • The land belongs to sixteen different owners; the cocoa-nut trees, breadfruit, almond, and other fruit-trees are bought separately They all agree; indeed, as they have abundance of space of spare land just as good all about, and they will get a good stock of hatchets, pigs, from me, for this land, there is not much doubt about that. —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • Long before our reliance on the big three - wheat, maize and barley - we were more varied in our choice of base ingredients, and lost heroes such as breadfruit (an indigenous, starchy staple of the Pacific islands), amaranth (a grain with high protein content and an ability to grow in extremely arid conditions) and tamarind (a tropical fruit tree) can dig us out of our blinkered state. —  The Guardian World News
  • The principal crops are breadfruit, coconuts, bananas, betel nuts, cassava, taro, and kava.
 

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