breadfruit

bread +‎ fruit, from the texture of the fruit.

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breadfruit (plural breadfruits or breadfruit)

1. An evergreen tree, Artocarpus altilis, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 53):

     There is also a fine tract of guano, inland, where grow limes, oranges, breadfruit and mummy-apples.

2. The large round fruit of this tree.

• (tree): breadfruit tree

• African breadfruit (Artocarpus treculianus and Treculia africana
• highland breadfruit (Ficus dammaropsis)
• Mexican breadfruit (Monstera deliciosa)
• seeded breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)

• breadfruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Artocarpus altilis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Artocarpus altilis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons