breadfruit

Calque of translingual Artocarpus; by surface analysis, bread (calque of ἄρτος (ártos)) +‎ fruit (calque of κᾰρπός (kărpós)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɛdfɹuːt/

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breadfruit (plural breadfruits or breadfruit)

1. An evergreen tree, Artocarpus altilis, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
   • 1882, De Robigne Mortimer Bennett, A Truth Seeker Around the World: From Bombay to Hong Kong, D. M. Bennett, page 371:

     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.

   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 53:

     There is also a fine tract of guano, inland, where grow limes, oranges, breadfruit and mummy-apples.

2. The large round fruit of this tree.

• (tree): breadfruit tree

• African breadfruit (Artocarpus treculianus and Treculia africana
• false breadfruit (Monstera deliciosa)
• highland breadfruit (Ficus dammaropsis)
• Mexican breadfruit (Monstera deliciosa)
• seeded breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)

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