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Monkey bread
A type of gourd, the fruit of a baobab tree, Adansonia digitata, eaten by monkeys.
📖 Definitions of "Monkey bread"
noun
- 1
A type of gourd, the fruit of a baobab tree, Adansonia digitata, eaten by monkeys.
- 2
The tree itself.
- 3
A soft, sweet, sticky pastry sprinkled with cinnamon, often served at fairs and festivals.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Monkey bread"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| sour gourdnoun | The baobab tree. |
| monkey's breadnoun | Alternative form of monkey bread. [A type of gourd, the fruit of a baobab tree (Adansonia digitata), eaten by monkeys.] |
| banana breadnoun | A type of bread or cake made with mashed bananas. |
| dika breadnoun | (cooking) A type of paste or cake prepared by grinding or crushing the seeds of plants of species Irvingia gabonensis (African mango). |
| nut breadnoun | (cooking) A type of bread containing chopped nuts. |
| melon breadnoun | Synonym of melonpan. |
| mandazinoun | A form of fried bread from eastern Africa. |
| date breadnoun | (cooking) A type of bread containing chopped dates. |
| mebosnoun | (South Africa) A type of sweet snack food consisting of dried apricot made into a pulp and flavoured with salt and sugar. |
| indian breadnoun | (Canada, US) Unleavened bread made and consumed by indigenous peoples of the Americas; bannock. |
| black breadnoun | (cooking) A type of coarse-grained, dark-colored rye bread. |
| cake-breadnoun | Fancy bread or sweetened bread. |
| music breadnoun | (cooking) A thin, crispy Sardinian flatbread. |
| bush breadnoun | (cooking) A bread made by the Aboriginal Australians, by crushing seeds into a dough, after which it is baked. |
| fried breadnoun | (US) A Native American food, found throughout the United States, a leavened flat dough fried or deep-fried in oil, shortening, or lard. |
| bammynoun | (Jamaica) Jamaican cassava flatbread. |
| biscuit breadnoun | (US, dialectal) A type of savoury bread in the form of a small cake or scone, typically made from flour, fat and a raising agent. |
| mosbolletjienoun | (South Africa, countable) A biscuit made of mosbolletjie dough. |
| oven breadnoun | Synonym of adobe bread. |
| anadama breadnoun | (cooking) A traditional yeast bread of New England, made with wheat flour, cornmeal, molasses and sometimes rye flour. |
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