Meanings
plural breadfruits
- Any member of the species Artocarpus altilis of evergreen trees, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
There is also a fine tract of guano, inland, where grow limes, oranges, breadfruit and mummy-apples.
1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 531 more example
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 - The large round fruit of this tree.
Synonyms: breadfruit tree
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe large round fruit of this tree.
More synonyms by meaning
nounnative to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- taxonomic nameArtocarpus
- Englishbreadfruit
Calque of taxonomic name Artocarpus; by surface analysis, bread (calque of ἄρτος (ártos)) + fruit (calque of κᾰρπός (kărpós)).
More words from taxonomic name
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic خُبْزِيَّة, شَجَرَة الخُبْز
- خُبْزِيَّة (ḵubziyya)tree
- شَجَرَة الخُبْزtree
Catalan arbre del pa
- arbre del patree
Chinese Mandarin 麵包樹 /面包树, 麵包果 /面包果
- 麵包樹 /面包树 (miànbāoshù)tree
- 麵包果 /面包果 (miànbāoguǒ)fruit
Danish brødfrugttræ, brødfrugt
- brødfrugttrætree
- brødfrugtfruit
Esperanto panarbo, panfrukto
- panarbotree
- panfruktofruit
Finnish leipäpuu, leipäpuun hedelmä
- leipäpuutree
- leipäpuun hedelmäfruit
French arbre à pain, artocarpus
- arbre à paintree
- artocarpustree
- artocarpetree
- fruit à painfruit
German Brotfruchtbaum, Brotfrucht
- Brotfruchtbaumtree
- Brotfruchtfruit
Hawaiian ʻulu, ʻulu
- ʻulutree
- ʻulufruit
Hindi कटहल
- कटहल (kaṭhal)fruit
Indonesian pohon sukun, sukun
- pohon sukuntree
- sukunfruit
Irish crann toraidh aráin, toradh aráin
- crann toraidh aráintree
- toradh aráinfruit
Japanese パンの木, パンの木の実
- パンの木 (pan no ki)tree
- パンの木の実 (pan no ki no mi)fruit
Korean 빵나무
- 빵나무 (ppangnamu)tree
Malay pokok sukun, pohon sukun
- pokok sukuntree
- pohon sukuntree
- pokok kulurtree
- pohon kulurtree
- kulurfruit
- sukunfruit
Māori pōporo, kuru
- pōporotree
- kurutree
- pōporohuatree
- kurufruit
- pōporofruit
Norwegian Bokmål brødfrukt
- brødfruktfruit
Portuguese fruta-pão, fruta-pão
- fruta-pãotree
- fruta-pãofruit
Romanian arbore de pâine
- arbore de pâinetree
Russian хле́бное де́рево, плод хле́бного де́рева
- хле́бное де́рево (xlébnoje dérevo)tree
- плод хле́бного де́рева (plod xlébnovo déreva)fruit
Spanish árbol del pan, panapén
- árbol del pantree
- panapéntree
- fruto del árbol del panfruit
- fruta de panfruit
- buen panfruit
- panafruit
- frutipánfruit
Swedish brödfruktträd, brödfrukt
- brödfruktträdtree
- brödfruktfruit
Tagalog rimas, rimas
- rimastree
- rimasfruit
- kamansifruit
Thai สาเก, สาเก
- สาเก (sǎa-gee)tree
- สาเก (sǎa-gee)fruit
Turkish ekmek ağacı, ekmek ağacı
- ekmek ağacıtree
- ekmek ağacıfruit
Vietnamese cây sa kê, quả sa kê
- cây sa kêtree
- quả sa kêfruit
- trái sa kêfruit
Cite this entry
breadfruit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breadfruit
“breadfruit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breadfruit. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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