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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Adansonia \Ad`an*so"ni*a\, n. [From Adanson, a French botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, {A. digitata}, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and {A. Gregorii}, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. --D. C. Eaton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Adansonia n : baobab; cream-of-tartar tree [syn: {Adansonia}, {genus Adansonia}]
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