MONKEY BREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monkey bread mean? 

• MONKEY BREAD (noun)
  The noun MONKEY BREAD has 1 sense:

1. African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp

  Familiarity information: MONKEY BREAD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONKEY BREAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

monkey bread; sour gourd

Hypernyms ("monkey bread" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("monkey bread" is a part of...):

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)