jack-fruit

Fruit trees, such as durian, jack-fruit, and others growing in the forest, are, in theory, the collective property of a clan or of a family, but in practice anyone may help himself.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

The bread-fruit and jack-fruit grow to enormous size.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

This fact was emphasized by a long afternoon drive, beginning in the native quarter with its attendant bazars and ending with a long country tour for at least an hour through a forest of palms of many varieties, the tall talipot towering high -- higher even than the fruit-laden cocoanut palm, -- while bread-fruit trees, jack-fruit trees, and bananas made a pleasing variety.

Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

They think that this worship and dance will cause the _karma_ tree, the mango, the jack-fruit and the mahua to bear a full crop of fruit.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

So after a real birth the young shoots of the jack-fruit, the rose-apple, certain kinds of banana, and the thin pulp of young coco-nuts are mixed with dried fish, salt, acid, prawn-condiment, and the like dainties to form a sort of salad, which is administered to mother and child for three successive days.

Chapter 46. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands. § 2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies 1922

So after a real birth the young shoots of the jack-fruit, the rose-apple, certain kinds of banana, and the thin pulp of young coco-nuts are mixed with dried fish, salt, acid, prawn-condiment, and the like dainties to form a sort of salad, which is administered to mother and child for three successive days.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

Nor has the ripening jack-fruit any attractions for him.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

Outside the window, over the thick foliage of the jack-fruit tree, appeared the first pale red of the dawn at the fringe of the night.

The Hungry Stones and Other Stories Rabindranath Tagore 1901

His village home lay there at the end of the waste land, beyond the sugar-cane field, hidden among the shadows of the banana and the slender areca palm, the cocoa-nut and the dark green jack-fruit trees.

The Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore 1901

So after a real birth the young shoots of the jack-fruit, the rose-apple, certain kinds of banana, and the thin pulp of young coco-nuts are mixed with dried fish, salt, acid, prawn-condiment, and the like dainties to form a sort of salad, which is administered to mother and child for three successive days.

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897