adansonia

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adansonia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Adansonia \Ad`an*so"ni*a\, n. [From Adanson, a French botanist.]
     (Bot.)
     A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two
     species, Adansonia digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of
     Africa and India, and Adansonia Gregorii, the sour gourd or
     cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of
     moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a
     wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with
     pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is
     used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. --D. C.
     Eaton.
     [1913 Webster]

adansonia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Adansonia
      n 1: baobab; cream-of-tartar tree [syn: Adansonia, genus Adansonia
           ]