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Definition of Jackfruit tree
1. Noun. East Indian tree cultivated for its immense edible fruit and seeds.
Terms within: Jack, Jackfruit, Jak
Group relationships: Artocarpus, Genus Artocarpus
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackfruit Tree
Literary usage of Jackfruit tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1850)
"... the cinnamon- tree, Eve's apple, jackfruit-tree, and banyan-tree,—the latter
throwing out from its horizontal branches fibrous shoots, which descend and ..."
2. Inheriting the Earth; Or, The Geographical Factor in National Development by Oscar Diedrich Engeln (1922)
"The breadfruit tree, the sago and sugar palms, and the jackfruit tree need only
protection after planting to furnish food abundantly. ..."
3. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian by Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (1912)
"... most likely to interest me; and it certainly did; it was the first tropical
botanical garden I had ever seen, and I well remember a fine jackfruit tree ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... abounding in the luxurious vegetation of an equatorial climate, such as pandani,
tree ferns, the wild jackfruit tree, and palms, including the cocoa- ..."
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