Word Meanings - BREADFRUIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and is eaten as food, whence the name.

• Pacific
  Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition.
• Seventhly
  In the seventh place.
• Southeastwardly
  Toward the southeast.
• Southsayer
  See Soothsayer.
• BAKERLEGGED
  Having legs that bend inward at the knees.
• Foundry
  The act, process, or art of casting metals.
• Pacificable
  Placable.
• Seventieth
  Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.
• Souther
  A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.
• South southerly
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• BAKSHEESHBAKSHISH
  Same as Backsheesh.
• Breadbasket
  The stomach.
• Pacifical
  Of or pertaining to peace; pacific.
• Seventy
  Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.
• Southerliness
  The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.
• Southward
  Alt. of Southwards

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