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Definition of Kaffir bread
1. Noun. South African cycad; the farinaceous pith of the fruit used as food.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kaffir Bread
Literary usage of Kaffir bread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"It fell to the Turks in 1475, and to the Russians in 1792. kaffir bread, a name
given to several South African species of Encephalartos, which, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Not until the early years of the aoth century was the country accurately mapped.
kaffir bread, in botany, the popular name for a species of ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... less at minute and searching expression of detail than at truth and beauty of
general tone, effect, and relation. Bread-tree. See kaffir bread, CYCA- ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The pith and central portion of the cones of some species form an article of food
among the Kaffirs, hence the common name of kaffir bread. ..."
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