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MONKEY BREAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does monkey bread mean?
• MONKEY BREAD (noun)
The noun MONKEY BREAD has 1 sense:
1. African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
Familiarity information: MONKEY BREAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
monkey bread; sour gourd
Hypernyms ("monkey bread" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("monkey bread" is a part of...):
Adansonia digitata; baobab; monkey-bread tree (African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread)
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