Crossword-Solution: BREADFRUIT
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| Breadfruit | n. | The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name. |
| Breadfruit | n. | The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “BREADFRUIT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Mutiny on the Bounty" crop | 1 answer |
| Bligh's quest | 1 answer |
| Crop named for its doughy texture when cooked | 1 answer |
| Tree of So. Pacific isles. | 1 answer |
| West Indian food plant | 1 answer |
| a fruit found in the Pacific | 1 answer |
| a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread | 1 answer |
| eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour | 1 answer |
| TROPICAL island tree | 2 answers |
| POLYNESIAN tree | 4 answers |
| Two-fer menu item? | 4 answers |
| ANTIAR RELATIVE | 17 answers |
| FRUIT, type of | 63 answers |
| tropical plant | 79 answers |
| Tree. | 109 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BREADFRUIT (5)
Agricultural production is concentrated on small farms, and the most important commercial crops are coconuts, tomatoes, melons, and breadfruit.
The agricultural sector is made up of cattle ranches and small farms producing coconuts, breadfruit, tomatoes, and melons.
Yet I accepted, because I thought the lesson of that road might be more useful to Samoa than a thousand breadfruit trees; and because to myself it was an exquisite pleasure to receive that which was so handsomely offered.
Beyond lay waving chapparel, where cocoa-palms and breadfruit trees intermixed with the mammee apple and the tendrils of the wild vine.
The artu with its delicately diamonded trunk, the great breadfruit tall as a beech, and shadowy as a cave, the aoa, and the eternal cocoa-nut palm all grew here like brothers.
Quotes with BREADFRUIT (2)
[T.J.] Without thinking, I held them out to her. She stopped laughing, and looked at me like she wasn't quite sure what I meant. I waited, and she leaned toward me and opened her mouth. I slid my fingers inside, wondering if my eyes were as big as hers. When she sucked the breadfruit off, my breathing got all messed up." More?" She nodded, just barely, and her breathing didn't sound right either. I scooped up some breadfruit and this time, when I put my fingers in her mouth, …
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1963–2024).