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monkey bread
noun
- the gourdlike fruit of the baobab, eaten by monkeys.
- the tree itself.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of monkey bread1
First recorded in 1780–90
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Example Sentences
Using skewers/tooth picks, attach monkey bread, Cinnabons, and churros to battleship.
From The Daily Beast
It was a calabash tree, otherwise called the monkey-bread tree, which the Woloffs call goui in their language.
From Project Gutenberg
The fruit, sometimes called monkey-bread, is about the size of a citron melon.
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The pulp of the fruit of the Adansonia digitata, or monkey bread, is also used as an article of food.
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You find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants.
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At nightfall he slept like a log "under a monkey-bread tree."
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