Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Guam, the edible seeds of the fertile breadfruit, Artocarpus communis, which, like those of the jack-fruit of the Philippines, are roasted and eaten, and resemble chestnuts in taste. See
dugdug . - noun In the Philippine Islands, the jack-fruit, Artocarpus integrifolia. See
jack-tree and Artocarpus. Also calledlangka .
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Examples
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Cebu's own hand-made specialty guitars are some of the world's finest handcrafted guitars made from local tropical materials, and even the tropical fruit nangka jackfruit!
Archive 2009-10-01 floreta 2009
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Cebu's own hand-made specialty guitars are some of the world's finest handcrafted guitars made from local tropical materials, and even the tropical fruit nangka jackfruit!
Sunday Scribblings: Junk floreta 2009
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The unripe nangka is used in cooking such as ginataang nangka (jackfruit with dried fish and coconut milk), jackfruit salad, nilaga na bukog sa baboy with nangka (boiled pig bones - with lots of ginger!)
Archive 2005-07-01 Arlene 2005
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The unripe nangka is used in cooking such as ginataang nangka (jackfruit with dried fish and coconut milk), jackfruit salad, nilaga na bukog sa baboy with nangka (boiled pig bones - with lots of ginger!)
Exotic Tagum Arlene 2005
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Fruits like guavas, nangka [jackfruit], papaya and banana grew well, even better than before the eruption of Mt. Galunggung.
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The middle layer is composed of smaller fruit crops such as coffee, nangka, guava, citrus, banana and papaya.
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Food is brought there, and while the door is left open the newly wedded eat meat and a stew of nangka seasoned with red pepper and salt, the guests eating at the same time.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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From the tree fell durian, nangka, and many other kinds of delicious fruit, as well as clothing, spears, sumpitans, gongs, and wang (money).
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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I followed him as he walked down the sloping gravelly road to where a nangka tree stood.
Planet Malaysia Peter Tan 2010
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It tried to dart away but its as it took off, it came into contact with the nangka sap and got stuck to the lidi.
Planet Malaysia Peter Tan 2010
bilby commented on the word nangka
nangka is also the Indonesian and Javanese word for jackfruit.
December 17, 2018