jackfruit

• jakfruit, jack fruit, jack-fruit

From jack (“jackfruit”), from Portuguese jaca (“jackfruit”), from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka) / Tamil சக்கை (cakkai), + fruit.^[1]

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jackfruit (plural jackfruits or jackfruit)

2. A tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the Moraceae family, which produces edible fruit.
   • 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.

4. The large fruit from this tree.
   • 1891, Crozet, Henry Ling Roth, James R. Boosé, Crozet's Voyage to Tasmania, New Zealand, the Ladrone Islands, and the Philippines in the Years 1771-1772, Truslove & Shirley, page 87:

     The fruit grows on the branches from the axil of the leaves, and attains the size of a cantaloupe melon, but more oval, and generally eight to ten inches long; it has a stalk proportioned to its size, and exactly resembles the jackfruit, which is known to all those who have journeyed to the Indies.

   • 2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”

• (fruit): jack (obsolete)
• (tree): jackfruit tree

• jackwood

• Jackfruit tree with fruit

jackfruit m (plural jackfruits)

1. jackfruit