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  • noun A large, spreading tree of the Euphorbiaceae, found on wooded hills and among sand dunes, with distinctive hand-shaped leaves, whose pale yellow wood resembles balsa.
  • noun Its egg-shaped, velvety fruit, having a thin layer of edible flesh surrounding a highly nutritious nut.

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Examples

  • Kung San of the Kalahari Desert is the mongongo fruit, which has a fleshy exterior and an edible kernel.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Kung San of the Kalahari Desert is the mongongo fruit, which has a fleshy exterior and an edible kernel.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Kung San of the Kalahari Desert is the mongongo fruit, which has a fleshy exterior and an edible kernel.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • The mongongo nut (Ricinodendron rauteanenii) from the Kalahari and the ye-eb (Codeauxin edulis) from Somalia are staples of local diet in very arid regions and the practicality of these species being planted as desert orchards in their countries of origin and elsewhere is being investigated.

    1. Lost crops of the incas. 1992

  • Why should we take up farming when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

    The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said Robert Byrne 1990

  • Some cultural details we have heard before from Richard Lee or Irven DeVore [*] — the elaborate gift-exchanges, the bounteous mongongo nut, the meat-sharing, the canny skills (the ability to recognize an individual's tracks, for example), the storied botanical and animal lore.

    Short Reviews Editors, The 1981

  • Kung bushman was asked in the 1960s why his people hadn’t taken up agriculture, he replied: “Why should we plant when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?”

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Kung bushman was asked in the 1960s why his people hadn’t taken up agriculture, he replied: “Why should we plant when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?”

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Kung bushman was asked in the 1960s why his people hadn’t taken up agriculture, he replied: “Why should we plant when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?”

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Perhaps the famed statement by an African Dobe Bushman says it all: "Why should we plant when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?" (

    unknown title 2009

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  • An African tree. Its fruit contains a thin layer of edible flesh around a thick shell, inside of which is a nut.

    July 25, 2007

  • The militant fruit in the Studio 60 fruit of the loom spoof.

    July 26, 2007