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baobab) The Australian baobab, or gourd tree, grows in NW Australia. It has edible seeds, and the massive trunk is used as a source of water by animals and Aborigines. Tree with rootlike branches, hence the nickname ‘upside-down tree’, and a disproportionately thick girth, up to 9 m/30 ft in diameter. The pulp of its fruit is edible and is known as monkey bread. (Genus Adansonia, family Bombacaceae.)
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He was seized by the chief of this region, fastened to the foot of a baobab, and the ferocious black then severed all his joints while the war-song of his tribe was chanted; he then made a gash in the prisoner's neck, stopped to sharpen his knife, and fairly tore away the poor wretch's head before it had been cut from the body. |
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