boabab

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A form of baobab — A tree, Adansonia digitata, native to tropical Africa, having a broad swollen trunk and edible gourd-like hanging fruits.

Scrabble 12

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nounboabab (plural boababs)

plural boababs

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of baobab.

    Boababs do not attain their full size until eight hundred years old.

    1879, The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, volume 21, page 219
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    At the equator and in the neighboring tropical regions we meet with […] the boababs, the palms, the elegant tree-ferns, the aloes, the heaths — magnificent plants which love and seek heat.

    1874, Fulgence Marion, The Wonders of Vegetation, page 17

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