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breadfruits

breadfruits is the plural of breadfruit.

Meaning of breadfruit

Noun

breadfruit (plural breadfruits or breadfruit)

  1. Any member of the species Artocarpus altilis of evergreen trees, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
    • On our return we stopped at Mr. Wijeysakera's home, quaffed the juice of King Cocoanut, looked through his extensive grounds, and saw several kinds of palm, the breadfruit-tree, the jackfruit-tree, the nux-vomica-tree, pimento or allspice shrub, nutmeg-tree, pineapples of different varieties.1882, De Robigne Mortimer Bennett, A Truth Seeker Around the World: From Bombay to Hong Kong, D. M. Bennett, page 371
  2. The large round fruit of this tree.
    Synonyms:
    breadfruit tree

Phrases with breadfruits

Questions about breadfruits

What is breadfruits the plural of?
Breadfruits is the plural of breadfruit.

Words near breadfruits in the dictionary

  1. breaden
  2. breader
  3. breaders
  4. breades
  5. breadfruit
  6. breadfruits
  7. breadhead
  8. breadheads
  9. breadier
  10. breadiest
  11. breadiness

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