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Adansonia

NOUN
  1. baobab; cream-of-tartar tree

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  • High cliffs towered above us, and fragments which must have weighed twenty tons had slipped into the water; one of them bore an adansonia, growing head downwards. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • “Bonderro” is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • The baobab (adansonia) is apparently of two kinds, the “Imbundeiro,” hung with long-stringed calabashes, which forms swarming-places for bees; and the “Aliconda” (Nkondo), whose gourd is almost sessile, and whose bark supplies fibre for cloth and ropes. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • The Wakamba, in Africa, use threads of the best of the adansonia or monkey-bread tree, and tie the funis tightly two or three inches from the navel, the Mexicans some three inches. Labor Among Primitive Peoples
  • These include two of the six Malagasy endemic baobab species (Adansonia grandidieri and A. suarezensis), two species or subspecies of primate, Perrier's sifaka and golden crowned sifaka, western forest rat, and ploughshare tortoise. Madagascar dry deciduous forests
  • The Masai and the Waswaheli throw a slightly acid and astringent powder, made from the fruit of the adansonia tree, over the child, to facilitate cleansing, just as we use oil or fat. Labor Among Primitive Peoples
  • It bore some resemblance to the adansonia figured in the account of Captain Tuckey's expedition to the Congo. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
  • The baobab (adansonia) is apparently of two kinds, the "Imbundeiro," hung with long - stringed calabashes, which forms swarming-places for bees; and the "Aliconda" (Nkondo), whose gourd is almost sessile, and whose bark supplies fibre for cloth and ropes. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
  • Bonderro" is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
  • The palm tree at Mazagong, like the adansonia in Salsette, is reported to have been carried thither by a pilgrim from Africa, probably from Upper Egypt, where late travellers mention this palm. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
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