sausage tree

noun

1. a tropical African tree, Kigelia pinnata, having red, bell-shaped flowers and large, sausage-shaped fruits hanging from very long stalks.

Example Sentences

In addition to their more expansive range, elephants can eat larger fruit than many other species, such as the meter-long seed pods of the sausage tree.

From Science Magazine

Territorial Forester Charles S. Judd took occasion to explain that his department had tried unsuccessfully to cross the sausage tree with the breadfruit tree and the mustard plant to produce a hotdog plant.

From Time Magazine Archive