The baobab is a traditional food plant in Africa, but is little-known elsewhere. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
“The baobab is a most wonderful tree,” he chuckled, settling back against an outcropping of rock. From Wordnik.com. [Giants of the Bushveld] Reference
Fruits such as baobab (Adansonia digitata) and morula (Sclerocarya birrea) are exceptionally rich in the vitamin. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
“As they say an elephant never forgets, the baobab is the wise old sage of the soil, and they, too, never forget. From Wordnik.com. [Giants of the Bushveld] Reference
Embu: muramba English: baobab Giriama: mbuyu, muuyu. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Later we went to the place of my ignominy: the baobab tree. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
"Approval for the baobab is fantastic news for Africa," said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The baobab-tree of Africa lives to be many hundred years old. From Wordnik.com. [New National Fourth Reader] Reference
The baobab is indisputably the monarch of African trees, p. 41. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
The stiffness can be increased by adding powdered baobab leaves. From Wordnik.com. [3. Conditions of Acceptance for Solar Cookers] Reference
Peponi Hotel in Shela has 34 rooms and baobab trees by the small pool. From Wordnik.com. [Lamu Town, Kenya] Reference
In the plain grew baobab, and immense tamarind, and a variety of thorn. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
The landscape around was arid scrub, the odd baobab tree broke the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
With every new position frustration grew like a baobab tree inside my stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Wishing For Limber Limbs] Reference
And for the most part there is little shade, save for a baobab tree here and there. From Wordnik.com. [Crossroads of Culture: Tips for Travelers] Reference
Yet we have not been troubled, because as it died, this living baobab did not perish. From Wordnik.com. ["Two Wings of a Great Movement"] Reference
Acacia welwitschii, and baobab (Adansonia digitata) being the dominant woody species. From Wordnik.com. [Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands] Reference
You cannot easily cut down and remove big trees such as the baobab, or the kapok tree. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
One such tree is the baobab (Adonsonia digitata) which grows in most African savannahs. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
In the meagre shade of a baobab tree he stopped to draw his knife. From Wordnik.com. [Watershed] Reference
But what can baobab fruit, also known as monkey's bread, bring to health-conscious Europe?. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I'd like to ask, however, what your other hand is supposed to be doing. this is a baobab tree. From Wordnik.com. [i got your radford highlander right here] Reference
Roughing and slow sand filters were thus tested in a pilot plant shaded by a large baobab tree. From Wordnik.com. [8. Classification of roughing filters] Reference
Zwigodini, an area where baobab trees flourish, was declared a cultural heritage site last year. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Madagascar has seven of the world's eight baobab tree species, six of them endemic to the island. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands] Reference
The leaves of sweet potatoes, beans and peas, pumpkins and squash, and baobab are especially nutritious. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 18] Reference
And then, with time and fortune, the baobab begins to grow, sometimes over twenty feet in just ten years. From Wordnik.com. [Giants of the Bushveld] Reference
On reaching it, we seated ourselves under a large baobab, which was more than thirty feet in circumference. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
Joe and Kennedy at once went to work, and soon had an immense pile of dried grass heaped up near the baobab. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
There's evidence of a pollen that looks to be from the family of the baobab tree, the whimsical African colossus. From Wordnik.com. [Pollen Nation] Reference
The baobab takes up to 1000 years to grow and the last remaining giants stand on the far side of the desert plane. From Wordnik.com. [Valerie Tarico: Man Against Nature is Man Against Man] Reference
The case of the baobab, or bottle tree, illustrates the spectacular diversity and endemism of plants in this hotspot. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands] Reference
A 20 m high granite outcrop, known as Kubu Island, is located on this peninsula and is dotted with giant baobab trees. From Wordnik.com. [Zambezian halophytics] Reference
"You use the monkey bread fruit if you have a belly ache," said farmer Aloyse Tine, using the local name for baobab fruit. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Originally, this community comprised baobab Adansonia digitata and several species of Ficus, Sterculia, Khaya, and Albizzia. From Wordnik.com. [Lake Malawi National Park, Malawi] Reference
"A baobab of music is dead," headlined the Le Phare daily on Tuesday as Congo's newspapers led tributes to the singer-songwriter. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The road led through a flat elongated plain, lying between two lengthy hilly ridges, thickly dotted with the giant forms of the baobab. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
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