baobab, monkey-bread tree, Adansonia digitata

African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread

• angiospermous tree, flowering tree — any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary

• sour gourd, monkey bread — African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp

• Adansonia, genus Adansonia — baobab; cream-of-tartar tree