NOUN | plant | Adansonia, genus Adansonia | baobab |
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Meaning | baobab; cream-of-tartar tree. | |
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Synonym | genus Adansonia | |
Member of | Bombacaceae, family Bombacaceae | Tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds |
Members | baobab, monkey-bread tree, Adansonia digitata | African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread |
cream-of-tartar tree, sour gourd, Adansonia gregorii | Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd | |
Broader | dilleniid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs |
Spanish | adansonia, genus adansonia | |
Catalan | adansonia, Baobab, genus adansonia |
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