Found 2 items, similar to Adansonia digitata.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: Adansonia digitata Adansonia digitata n : African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread [syn: baobab, monkey-bread tree]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Adansonia digitata 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] || Monkey-bread \Mon"key-bread`\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia. [1913 Webster] Baobab \Ba"o*bab\ (b[=a]"[-o]*b[a^]b or b[aum]"[-o]*b[a^]b), n. [The native name.] (Bot.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia. [1913 Webster]