monkey-bread

We slept at the foot of that mountain, under a monkey-bread tree.

The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008

He parked his truck under the shady boughs of a monkey-bread tree.

Tears Of The Giraffe Smith, Alexander McCall, 1948- 2000

Isaaco retired to another monkey-bread tree, ringed his little company about with muskets, double-barrelled guns, and assegais and "waited for what should happen."

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

Each branch would have made one of the largest trees in Europe; and the tout ensemble of the monkey-bread tree looked less like a single tree than a forest.

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. Pierre Raymond de Brisson

It was a calabash tree, otherwise called the monkey-bread tree, which the Woloffs call _goui_ in their language.

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. Pierre Raymond de Brisson

At nightfall he slept like a log "under a monkey-bread tree."

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 Various

You find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants.

The Pools of Silence 1907

Toward evening the trees came out to meet them, baobab and monkey-bread, set widely apart; and they camped by a pool and lit their fire, and slept as men sleep in the pure air of the woods and the desert.

The Pools of Silence 1907

The Wakamba, in Africa, use threads of the best of the adansonia or monkey-bread tree, and tie the funis tightly two or three inches from the navel, the Mexicans some three inches.

Labor Among Primitive Peoples 1884

To resume the thread of the journey: we found, on arrival in Ugogo, very little more food than in Usagara for the Wagogo were mixing their small stores of grain with the monkey-bread seeds of the gouty-limbed tree.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845