Adansonia


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Noun1.Adansonia - baobabAdansonia - baobab; cream-of-tartar tree  
dilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
Bombacaceae, family Bombacaceae - tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds
Adansonia gregorii, cream-of-tartar tree, sour gourd - Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd
Adansonia digitata, baobab, monkey-bread tree - African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
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He offered Thuto's parents an all expenses paid weekend at Adansonia Hotel at a date convenient to them, while Thuto would get a special BOPSSA track suit.
Furthermore, harvesting of fruit trees for sale of fruits such as Uapaca kirkiana, Adansonia digitata and Afzella quanzensis roots for medicinal purposes is common in the study area (Mashapa et al., 2014).
Science Centre (ICSQ) (Adansonia Digitata Seed Oil)
The gigantic trees dwarf other plants on farms along the Mombasa-Nairobi highway as one approaches Kibwezi town in Makueni County.Dangling from the African baobab trees (Adansonia digitata) are giant fruits, whose white pulp is normally a source of food for residents when drought strikesThe baobab tree, which in Kiswahili is popularly known as mbuyu, dots the landscape of the semi-arid region.
When contacted, an expert from Dubai Municipality's Parks and Horticulture Department identified the trees as Adansonia grandidieri, known as Grandidier's baobab from Madagascar.
(iv) Epo ose- Adansonia Digitata, drop it inside fire and allow it to burn for a while, then complete the burning in a pot with a whole alligator pepper.
For instance, local dietary resources like moringa (Moringa oleifera) leaves, African locust bean (Parkia biglobosa) kernels, Baobab (Adansonia digitata) leaves and fruits are increasingly being used in the formulation of infant flours [30].
Avenue of the Baobabs - Madagascar Fast becoming a tourist destination, the Adansonia Grandidieri or the giant baobab tree only grows in Madagascar.
Totte, "Variability of fruit physicochemical characters for three harvested woody species in Senegal: Adansonia digitata, Balanites aegyptiaca and Tamarindus," Fruits, vol.
(Leguminosae-Mimosoideae) in mainland SE Asia," Adansonia, vol.
Marshall, "Effect of thermal treatment and storage on bioactive compounds, organic acids and antioxidant activity of baobab fruit (Adansonia digitata) pulp from Malawi," Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, vol.