Definition of "baobab" [ba•o•bab]

• Any of several trees of the genus Adansonia of Africa, Madagascar, and Australia, especially the tropical African species A. digitata having a broad swollen trunk that stores water, palmately compound leaves, and edible gourdlike hanging fruits. (noun)

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• "“The baobab is a most wonderful tree,” he chuckled, settling back against an outcropping of rock."
• "There they were, isolated at the top of one of the larger branches shooting out in the midst of one of those miniature forests called baobab-trees."
• "But this wonder will cease when I inform you, that the hallowing out of a chamber in the trunk of a baobab is a mere bagatelle, and costs but trifling labour."