monkey bread

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Noun

monkey bread (countable and uncountable, plural monkey breads)

1. A type of gourd, the fruit of a baobab tree (Adansonia digitata), eaten by monkeys.
2. The tree itself.
3. (US) A soft, sweet, sticky pastry sprinkled with cinnamon, often served at fairs and festivals.

Alternative forms

• monkey's bread

Translations

fruit

Hungarian: majomkenyér Welsh: bara mwnci m

tree

Bulgarian: баобаб m (baobab) German: Affenbrotbaum (de) m Hungarian: majomkenyérfa (hu) Welsh: baobab f, coeden faobab f

pastry

Polish: małpi chlebek (pl) m

Further reading

• Baobab on Wikipedia.Wikipedia