bread palm, noun phrase

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AfrikaansShow more Perhaps translation of Afrikaans broodpalm.
Especially in the Eastern Cape: bread tree.
1908 ‘Phloeophagus’ in E. London Dispatch 24 Dec. 3Our local Cycads..are commonly called..‘Bread palm.’
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 88Bread-palm, Another Eastern Province name for the Cycadaceae.
1977 E. Palmer Field Guide to Trees of Sn Afr. 66Bread Palm, Encephalartos longifolius...Uniondale to Albany districts on inland sourveld hills and mountains, grassy slopes, kloofs.
1982 Fox & Norwood Young Food from Veld 37Encephalartos spp., e.g. E. longifolius — bread palm — pith used by Hottentots, rhizomes eaten raw or roasted by San.
Especially in the Eastern Cape: bread tree.
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breadfruit, nounn.bread tree, noun phrasen. phr.
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