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Baobab   Listen
noun
Baobab  n.  (Bot.) A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.





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"Baobab" Quotes from Famous Books



... DIGITATA.—The baobab tree, a native of Africa. It has been called the tree of a thousand years, and Humboldt speaks of it as "the oldest organic monument of our planet." Adanson, who traveled in Senegal in 1794, made a calculation to show that one of these trees, 30 feet in diameter, must be 5,150 years old. The bark ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders


Words linked to "Baobab" :   genus Adansonia, flowering tree, monkey-bread tree, Adansonia digitata, angiospermous tree


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