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Webster 1913 Edition
Adansonia
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Adˊan-so′ni-a
,Noun.
[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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Adansonia
ADANSO'NIA
,Noun.