adansonia

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 2003

“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 2003

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 2003

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 Maria Graham

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 Phillip Parker King

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 1884

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 1884

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 Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

"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 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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 Richard Francis Burton 1855