breadfruit

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of species Artocarpus altilis of evergreen trees, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
    — 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.
  2. The large round fruit of this tree.

词形变化

breadfruits plural breadfruit plural

词汇关系

衍生词
African breadfruit (Artocarpus treculianus and Treculia africana false breadfruit highland breadfruit Mexican breadfruit seeded breadfruit

词源

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