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  • noun Plural form of breadfruit.

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Examples

  • Among the many trees that grow in the region are false chewsticks, Senegal date palms, East African mahoganies, and African breadfruits.

    Ecoregions of Congo, Democratic Republic of (WWF) 2009

  • In Neverland, the Lost Boys and Peter Pan, “clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees,” ate roasted breadfruits, mammee apples and calabashes of poe-poe.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • In Neverland, the Lost Boys and Peter Pan, “clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees,” ate roasted breadfruits, mammee apples and calabashes of poe-poe.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • In Neverland, the Lost Boys and Peter Pan, “clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees,” ate roasted breadfruits, mammee apples and calabashes of poe-poe.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The pulp scraped from soft, ripe breadfruits is combined with coconut milk (not coconut water), salt and sugar and baked to make a pudding.

    standing up and yelling from stairs breadfruit 2005

  • And it was always loaded with huge green round breadfruits, each about the size of a small melon.

    Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

  • I fished one of the breadfruits out of the fire with a stick, held it down and cut it open with another stick I'd managed to break off at an angle and sharpen by rubbing on the pavement.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • We knew this because we had often seen the Jamaican man collect the breadfruits and go home with a burlap bag full of them.

    Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

  • So we threw those smelly, gooey breadfruits, hurled them with absolute abandon, with fury.

    Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 2003

  • Tall, evergreen breadfruits mingled with parrot pines, casting dark green shadows against the chromatic evening sky.

    Gabriel Hawk's Lady Barton, Beverly 1998

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