jack fruit

A form of jackfruit — A tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the Moraceae family, which produces edible fruit.

Meanings

nounjack fruit (plural jack fruits or jack fruit)

plural jack fruits

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of jackfruit.
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    At the time of our inspection, eight months and one growing season later, we found that most jack fruit, many kapok trees, and some guava trees (all dicotyledons) had died in the interim. […] These farmers’ then current crops of vegetables of numerous kinds, of pineapples, of guavas, of jack fruit, of papayas, and of many, many more, were simply destroyed.

    1972, Arthur H. Westing, “Herbicidal Damage to Cambodia”, in Harvest of Death: Chemical Warfare in Vietnam and Cambodia, New York, N.Y.: Free Press; London: Collier-Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, part II (Herbicides), pages 185 and 194
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