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noun African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread
originBorrowed from Medieval Latin bahobab, from Arabic أَبُو حِبَاب (ʔabū ḥibāb, “father of many seeds”), from أَبُو (ʔabū, “father”) + حَبّ (ḥabb, “seed”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0