Baobab Definition

bāō-băb, bä-
baobabs
noun
baobabs
Any of several trees of the genus Adansonia of Africa, Madagascar, and Australia, especially the tropical African species A. digitata, having palmately compound leaves, edible gourdlike fruits, and a broad trunk that stores water.
American Heritage
A thick-trunked tree (Adansonia digitata) of the bombax family, native to Africa: fiber from its bark is used for making rope, paper, etc., and the gourdlike fruit has an edible pulp.
Webster's New World

A tree, Adansonia digitata (similar species), native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Adansonia digitata
  • monkey-bread tree

Other Word Forms of Baobab

Noun

Singular:
baobab
Plural:
baobabs

Origin of Baobab

  • New Latin bahobab possibly from North African Arabic būḥibab fruit of many seeds from Arabic ’abū ḥibāb source of seeds ’ab father, source ℵb in Semitic roots ḥibāb pl. of ḥabb seed

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Arabic بو حباب (būħibāb, “father of many seeds”), from ابو (’abū, “father”) + حب (ħabb, “seed”).

    From Wiktionary

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