breadfruit

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
noun a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts

Calque of translingual Artocarpus; by surface analysis, bread (calque of ἄρτος (ártos)) + fruit (calque of κᾰρπός (kărpós)).

Artu and breadfruit trees and cocoa-nut bordered the way. — The Blue Lagoon: A Romance, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
There 's bananas, and there 's cocoanuts, and there 's breadfruit. — Changeling, and Other Stories, Donn Byrne
They did no work except to grow a few yams, bananas, and breadfruit. — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) Gilson

breadfruit tree, Artocarpus communis, Artocarpus altilis

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