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• They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
• In the Caribbean, the leaves of the breadfruit are used in folk medicine to relieve pain and inflammation.
• Farmers can harvest avocados, bananas, breadfruits, mangoes, and oranges, as well as medicinal plants, rubber, and timber.
• Breadfruit -, mango - and orange-trees grew in the tangled tall grass, and the garden where the priests had read their breviaries was a wilderness of tiger-lilies. White Shadows in the South Seas
• The breadfruit trees, cycads and tall hardwoods of that forest hide hornbills, sea eagles and monkeys.
• These animals have fed only on the finest tropical fruits (mangoes and breadfruit are their favourites).
• So saying, the otter slipped several quivering slabs of coelenterate between two pieces of breadfruit and commenced chewing noisily. The Time of the Transference
• Among the island's abundant fruits are bananas, mangos, breadfruit, guavas, plumrose, coconuts, passion fruits, and pineapples.
• In Brazil I have often admired the contrast of varied beauty in the banana, palm, and orange tree; here we have in addition the breadfruit tree, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
• The land produces taro, yams, sweet potatoes, cassava, and breadfruit.