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Meanings of breadfruit in English
Portuguese
fruta-pão 
Native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread.
Synonyms
Examples for "breadfruit tree"
Examples for "breadfruit tree"
1
The natives reckon eight kinds of the breadfruit tree, each of which they distinguish by a different name.
2
Playest fan with the breadfruit tree?
3
His days Bassett spent in a hammock swung under the shade of the great breadfruit tree before the devil-devil house.
4
A single specimen was taken in August 1849, on a breadfruit tree in Brumer Island, South-East coast of New Guinea.
5
In a breadfruit tree.
1
Background: Artocarpus communis is used traditionally in Cameroon to treat several ailments, including infectious and associated diseases.
Usage of breadfruit in English
1
Serena and the baby are in the breadfruit grove behind the village.
2
The natives soon came off in canoes, and brought breadfruit and cocoa-nuts.
3
The breadfruit plants died to the root and sprouted afresh from thence.
4
We were supplied with coconuts in great abundance but breadfruit was scarce.
5
It was a breadfruit season away from Atuona, at the very least.
6
Wax-palm trees, breadfruit trees, and rubber trees are found in these forests.
7
This meal consisted of a baked breadfruit and a can of water.
8
Served a few broken pieces of breadfruit for supper and performed prayers.
9
I soon found myself on a little breadfruit expedition of my own.
10
Coconut palms, banana trees, and lofty breadfruit trees gave food and sun-shelter.
11
They do not pay us for our yams, and taro, and breadfruit.
12
Can't you lead me to a banana vine or a breadfruit bakery?
13
They pass mute, falling like the breadfruit in their dark groves.
14
The breadfruit trees and coconut trees at this time were full of fruit.
15
If you sow the bread-fruit seed, you will reap the breadfruit.
16
Compounding that, most of the cassava and breadfruit crops were gone.
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