Meaning

2 senses
  1. Any member of the species Artocarpus altilis of evergreen trees, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.

    native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread

  2. The large round fruit of this tree.

    Brotfruchtbaum, Brotfrucht

    хле́бное де́ревоxlébnoje dérevo, плод хле́бного де́реваplod xlébnovo déreva

    a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts

Examples

11 sentences
  1. Put the breadfruit in the pot.

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  2. I'd like to eat fish and breadfruit.

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  3. Peel the skin off of the breadfruit.

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  4. Cook the breadfruit for about forty-five minutes.

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  5. You can get okra and breadfruit from the grocer on the corner.

    deOkraschoten und Brotfrüchte bekommst du beim Krämer an der Ecke.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
tree:
fruit:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
tree:
fruit:

Origin

Calque of taxonomic name Artocarpus; by surface analysis, bread (calque of ἄρτος (ártos))

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

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Forms

plural: breadfruits / breadfruit
Singularbreadfruit
Pluralbreadfruits / breadfruit

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
tree:breadfruit tree
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
breadfruit — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto