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African peach

African peach noun: nauclea latifolia) (syns. Sarcocephalus latifolius, Sarcocephalus esculentus), a deciduous rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa, or its fruit; its bark, doundaké, is used medicinally.

Noun

African peach (plural African peaches)

  1. Nauclea latifolia) (syns. Sarcocephalus latifolius, Sarcocephalus esculentus), a deciduous rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa, or its fruit; its bark, doundaké, is used medicinally.
    • With the plants common to the Slave Coast may be included the Zingiber officianale (ginger), Sarcocephalus esculentus (African peach), Gossipium herbaceum (cotton plant), Tamarindus Indica (tamarinds), Cucurbita Citrullus (water-melon) […]1845, W.F. Daniell, “Some Observations on the Medical Topography, Climate, and Diseases, of the Bights of Benin and Biafra”, in London Medical Gazette, volume 35, page 643
    • In 2013, researchers at the Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble discovered unexpectedly racemic tramadol in the root bark of the sub-Saharan African peach (pincushion tree, Nauclea latifolia).2015, Bernd Schaefer, Natural Products in the Chemical Industry
    Synonyms:
    Guinea peach, Sierra Leone peach, country fig, pincushion tree

Synonyms of African peach

Forms of African peach

pluralAfrican peaches

Questions about African peach

What does African peach mean?
African peach means nauclea latifolia) (syns. Sarcocephalus latifolius, Sarcocephalus esculentus), a deciduous rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa, or its fruit; its bark, doundaké, is used medicinally.
What part of speech is African peach?
African peach is a noun.
What is the plural of African peach?
The plural of African peach is African peaches.

Words near African peach in the dictionary

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  2. African painted frog
  3. African painted frogs
  4. African palm civet
  5. African palm civets
  6. African peach
  7. African peaches
  8. African pear
  9. African pearwood
  10. African penguin
  11. African penguins

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