Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A Malaysian evergreen timber tree (Artocarpus altilis) having large, round, yellowish, edible fruits.
- n. The fruit of this tree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fruit of the tree Artocarpus incisa. See below.
- n. A rubiaceous shrub of northern Australia, Gardenia edulis, bearing a small edible fruit.
Wiktionary
- n. An evergreen tree, Artocarpus altilis, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
- n. The large round fruit of this tree.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.
- n. (Bot.) The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also
breadfruit tree andbread tree .
WordNet 3.0
- n. native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
- n. a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts
Examples
“CAPTAIN COOK, Hawaii—The breadfruit is a remarkable food: The prickly football-size pod is full of nutrients and energy.”
The Wall Street Journal: 'Food of the Future' Has One Hitch: It's All But Inedible
“The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.”
“Tree crops like breadfruit, which is from the Pacific, could be introduced in Africa because trees are more resistant to climate change.”
“The breadfruit is a tree that grows up to around 10 to 35 meters tall with sticky, large, spirally arranged lobed leaves found in the South Pacific.”
“They knew how to keep seeds such as breadfruit alive for months during an open ocean canoe voyage, and how to graft plants, enhance growth, and most importantly how to utilize the botanical resources of their islands to maximum effect.”
“The most common method of dividing time at Otaheite is by moons; but they likewise make a division of the year into six parts, each of which is distinguished by the name of the kind of breadfruit then in season.”
“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.”
“Forests which provide important staple crops in the region, such as breadfruit, mangoes, citrus fruits and coconuts, were also threatened by climate change and overexploitation, it said.”
“Mango, breadfruit and love apple trees also flourish in average daily temperatures ranging from 78.8 °F to 89.6 °F.”
The Huffington Post: Dwight Brown: St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island
“Mango, breadfruit and love apple trees also flourish in average daily temperatures ranging from 78.8 °F to 89.6 °F.”
The Huffington Post: Dwight Brown: St. Lucia -- The Shangri-la Caribbean Island
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘breadfruit’.
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 more...
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Semipoisonous Foods
poisonous unless ...
breadfruit, cassava, manioc, pokeweed, stanleya, snow plant, anemone, lupine, mescal bean, hound's-tongue, wild comfrey, juniper and 5 more...
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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
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Exotic Tastes
Interesting words related to food, ingredients, dishes, cookery, cuisines and so on. Exotic in this case is entirely subjective, with funkelberries on top.
tatty, neep, flummery, babaganoush, tahini, samphire, loblolly, scrumpy, fressen, luwak, duxelle, edamame and 213 more...
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jamaicangirl's Words
zygophyllaceous, spurious, sassenach, gobsmacked, mollycoddle, balderdash, tamarind, posthumously, ostracize, turpentine, asafoetida, idiosyncratic and 40 more...
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Fruits I Know Of
A bunch of fruits.
banana, orange, oranges, pineapple, grapefruit, apple, pear, peach, breadfruit, melon, papaya, elderberry and 3 more...
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Fruity words
All fruits are not created equal. Nor are all words for fruits. These are my favorite fruit words and not necessarily my favorite fruits!
pomegranate, pome, pomelo, kiwi, rambutan, tomato, breadfruit, durian, tangerine, raspberry, huckleberry, elderberry and 5 more...
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bunch of fruits
I like fruit. And I like the names of fruits – well, of these fruits at least.
persimmon, kaki, pomegranate, apple, pear, peach, fig, date, grapefruit, orange, banana, japanese persimmon and 39 more...
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flinchers
words that make me uncomfortable
moist, loin, secret to a tiny ..., bacon cheddar ranch, discharge, Yoplait, weevil, splurge, palpate, fissure, exude, humectant and 77 more...
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Breadfruit
A delicious and useful fruit and plant! I'm collecting words related to the botany and uses, cultivars, anything really.
breadfruit, arbor de pan, breadnut, chataignier, pao de massa, broodvrucht, castano de malabar, pan de todo el ano, tupan, mazapan, sukun, marure and 58 more...
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Names and kinds of fruit
A list made in honor of my son, who likes to eat it. A lot. Today he's had blueberries, apples, bananas, and watermelon, and that was just in his first two hours awake. Limited to fruit I could thi...
apple, banana, watermelon, orange, grape, blueberry, papaya, mango, nectarine, peach, grapefruit, pomelo and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for breadfruit.
bilby Heavenly stuff. Dec 12, 2007
chained_bear Whenever I see this word, I remember the movie "Six Days, Seven Nights," in which someone (Harrison Ford or Anne Heche) said "I don't know, it isn't bread." And the other said, "...and it isn't fruit."
Ah, screenwriting genius... Dec 12, 2007