How To Use Baobab In A Sentence
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The baobab is a traditional food plant in Africa, but is little-known elsewhere.
American Chronicle
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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
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Genres like benga and jùjú took hold, and artists like Orchestra Baobab and Kuti found success beyond the continent.
Pop Goes the Continent
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School children will pitch in to help staff at Johannesburg Zoo plant baobabs and false cabbage trees at the zoo on Arbor Day, Friday, 2 September, to celebrate national Arbor Week.
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We had 300 plants that we airfreighted from Perth, including a 7 metre Baobab tree which was quite a challenge in an air container.
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Nyanja kotola, ku - v.t. "strip off bark for barkcloth, burn off skin, brand"; ngotola "hooked stick used in removing baobab bark to make a rope (from kotola).
Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
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This area is home of no less than seven of Africa's most amazing animals: the African elephant, the lion, giraffe, the baobab tree, the eland, the ostrich, and the koori bustard.
Edward Lozzi: Obama and Clinton Fight International Parental Kidnappings
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Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
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“As they say an elephant never forgets, the baobab is the wise old sage of the soil, and they, too, never forget.
Giants of the Bushveld
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The trip begins in the Tarangire National Park, where baobab trees dot the horizon and tree-climbing lions doze in the shade.
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I have written all my life about that street, the frangipani, giant baobabs, lush and long gardens.
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This book is a biography of one tree, a Douglas - fi r, but it could be any tree-an Australian eucalpytus, an Indian banyan, an English oak, an African baobab, a mahogany from the Amazon, or a cedar of Lebanon.
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The pulp of Baobab fruits has a taste like the cream of tartar and is used to treat fever, dysentery and stomach ailments in some parts of Asia.
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A kind of sterculia, which is the most common tree at Loanda, and the baobab, flourish here; and the tree called moshuka, which we found near Tala Mungongo, was now yielding its fruit, which resembles small apples.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Many hungry families are reportedly living on one meal a day, exchanging precious livestock for buckets of maize or eating wild foods such as baobab and amarula.
IRIN
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When the sun sets, its inhabitants bow down in unison amid their baobab and thorn trees toward Mecca to pray.
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Ceiba is in the Malvaceae, a family that also includes the baobab or boab trees of
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With him it was splendid rock outcrops, baobab trees, orange sunsets and the Zimbabwe Ruins.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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When the sun sets, its inhabitants bow down in unison amid their baobab and thorn trees toward Mecca to pray.
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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.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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The trip begins in the Tarangire National Park, where baobab trees dot the horizon and tree-climbing lions doze in the shade.
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When the sun sets, its inhabitants bow down in unison amid their baobab and thorn trees toward Mecca to pray.
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Dotted with extraordinary trees like the baobab with its thick knotty trunk and root-like branches, the park teems with wildlife.
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Alerted by phone, the local authorities had come to see what was happening in Mekhembar, a village of 1,500 people set among thorny acacias and baobab trees with their bulging trunks.
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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.
Ran Away to Sea
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Fruits such as baobab (Adansonia digitata) and morula (Sclerocarya birrea) are exceptionally rich in the vitamin.
Chapter 4
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Il avait besoin d´ un agneau qui mangeait les burgeons de baobabs, avant qu´ ils grandissaient et faisaient éclater son petit astre.
The Little Prince Hits a Brick Wall
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There were plenty of people in the plaza, most of them sitting or standing in the shade of an immense baobab tree near the column.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
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A small baobab tree is growing out of the filth in the middle of the concrete-lined ditch.
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“The baobab is a most wonderful tree,” he chuckled, settling back against an outcropping of rock.
Giants of the Bushveld
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“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
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Mango, cashew and baobab trees also encourage the production of honey which is sold to provide an income for the five villages involved in the project.
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You find here enormous acacias, monkey-bread trees, raphia palms and baobabs; less gloom, and fewer creeping and hanging plants.
The Pools of Silence
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Brass snaps impart a utilitarian elegance, and its hook hangs as easily from a bathroom door as from the branches of a baobab tree.
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The sightliest part is the vegetation, glorious ceibas (bombax) used for dug-outs; baobabs, tamarinds which supply cooling fruit and distilled waters; limes and bitter oranges.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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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
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Named after the African baobab tree, Vocal Baobab is one of the busiest and most popular folklore troupes in Havana, Cuba.
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Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
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Every so often it lurches to a halt and young men jump out and pin posters to wide-bodied baobab trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trees planted since 2001 include the river bush willow, the cheesewood, the red currant, the mountain seringa, the baobab and the wild pomegranate.
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The pulp of Baobab fruits has a taste like the cream of tartar and is used to treat fever, dysentery and stomach ailments in some parts of Asia.
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Africa -- the baobab, which is a vitamin and mineral-packed fruit that so far has only been enjoyed by locals, but is now acai-powered smoothie shops in Miami and Berkeley out of business.
Fast Company
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Collaring another guest, we piled into the Land Rover and roared off, past herds of roan antelope and puku, under baobab trees and circling vultures, to where the last of the forest clumps gave way to limitless plain.
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On the other hand, several tropical species of flowering plant, such as the African baobab tree and the Australian ironwood, rely on fruitbats to pollinate them.
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The baobab was aflame, regular fire eating it as quickly as it could.
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Some of the natives had really climbed the baobab, and now they were seen rising on all sides, winding along the boughs like reptiles, and advancing slowly but surely, all the time plainly enough discernible, not merely to the eye but to the nostrils, by the horrible odors of the rancid grease with which they bedaub their bodies.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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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
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Naturally the baobab is revered as the ancestor among trees.
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By ten we're stripped to shorts and tee-shirts and have a coffee stop under a giant baobab, the tree Livingstone likened to an upturned carrot.
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This land is home to the largest succulent plants found anywhere, the giant baobab trees that are sometimes more than two thousand years old, and camelthorn trees, which house the haystacksize communal nests of the weavers.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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Every so often it lurches to a halt and young men jump out and pin posters to wide-bodied baobab trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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Even the ostrich squawk as they make their way across the sandvelt to open marshlands and savannahs dotted with acacia, baobab trees and wild sage bushes.
