[f. BREAD + TREE.] A name sometimes given to the Bread-fruit tree; also to several other trees of which the produce is used as food, as Gardenia edulis, Encephalartos caffer.
1786. trans. Sparrman’s Voy., I. 346. On a height … grew the bread-tree (brood-boom) of the Hottentots.
1823. Byron, Island, II. xi. The bread-tree … yields The unreap’d harvest of unfurrow’d fields.
1834. Pringle, Afr. Sk., vi. 204. The Hottentot bread-tree, a species of palm.
