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breadfruit

breadfruit

3 7.0
A large round tropical fruit with starchy flesh cooked like bread
  • noun
  • /ˈbrɛdˌfruːt/
translation icon : fruta del pan
  • Breadfruit grows abundantly in Haiti, but isn't much used as a food source there.
  • breadfruit and papaya
  • breadfruit and taro
  • breadfruit and coconut

And there we were greeted with flower guard garlands and a feast where we had all of these, these fish and breadfruit and lobsters and crabs.

Examples

  • At the work table, the old cook, Leonne, diced a breadfruit while Rosalie cracked and cleaned earth crabs.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Chuck takes a cooked fish off the fire and mixes it with some breadfruit.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • "I was silent, watching the leaves of the breadfruit trees catch the wind and play.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • When did you last inspect the breadfruit plants?

    The Bounty (1984)

  • We went back to sit under the breadfruit tree, Ma Chottie and me.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Side dishes consisted of coconuts, bananas, breadfruit, and yams.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • And there we were greeted with flower guard garlands and a feast where we had all of these, these fish and breadfruit and lobsters and crabs.

    Harvard University

  • And so to the Admiralty commissioned William Bligh to take the ship Bounty to Tahiti to collect breadfruit saplings to be transported to the West Indies.

  • The chef prepared a delicious curry with breadfruit as the main ingredient.

  • For dinner, we roasted breadfruit slices until they were golden and crispy.

Synonyms

fruit
vsbreadfruit
957 1.0

An edible part of a plant like an apple or orange

is starchy, large, and becomes doughy when cooked rather than usually sweet
edible fruit
vsbreadfruit
1 1.0

A fruit you can safely eat that is usually sweet

is starchy and becomes doughy when cooked rather than sweet

Compounds

breadfruit tree
1 7.4

A tropical tree that makes large starchy fruit that become like bread when cooked

How Starchy

breadfruit
3 7.0
plantain
11 4.1

Surface Forms

breadfruit singular
breadfruits plural

Morphology

breadfruit = bread + fruit (transparent) = bread + fruit

The compound directly describes a fruit whose flesh is bread-like, a meaning readily inferable from 'bread' + 'fruit'.

Etymology

The word breadfruit is a simple combination of bread and fruit. European sailors named it because when cooked its thick, starchy flesh tastes like 'bread' and was used as a main food on many Pacific islands, so the name tells you exactly what it is.