bread-tree

The bread-tree is taller and more bulky than our common apple-trees; its leaves are black, its fruit is yellow, and equal in dimensions to the largest apple.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The bread-tree grows in the Philippine islands, and principally in those of Guam and Tinian, as the cocoa-tree grows in the Indies.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

While these interesting birds were cooking, Ned prepared the fruit of the bread-tree.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

The carob, or St. John's bread-tree, is plentiful; and the long thick pods which it produces are exported in considerable quantities to Syria and Egypt.

The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

Two productions, not less estimable perhaps than gold and silver, are indigenous to this fine country, and increase in the most prodigious manner there; viz. the Lotus, or bread-tree, of the ancients, spoken of by Pliny, and the Shea, or butter-tree, [12] of which the English traveller Mungo Park has given a description.

Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. Pierre Raymond de Brisson

H Episode of guarding king's fruit-tree or bread-tree (Chile peppers).

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

“The bread-tree, which without the ploughshare yields The unreaped harvest of unfurrowed fields, And bakes its unadulterated loaves Without a furnace in unpurchased groves, And flings off famine from its fertile breast, A priceless market for the gathering guest.”

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

I received the seeds of the bread-tree. [omission: word (s)] One service of this kind rendered to a nation, is worth more to them than all the victories of the most splendid pages of their history, and becomes a source of exalted pleasure to those who have been instrumental in it. —

The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia 1900

Thus we found a place where the bread-tree and other fruits, most of them now ripe, grew in abundance, as did the yam.

When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Before the conquest, the people of the Mariannes lived on the fruit of the rima or bread-tree, rice, sago, and other farinaceous plants.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866