breadfruit

English

Artocarpus altilis

Fruit of Artocarpus altilis

Etymology

bread +‎ fruit, from the texture of the fruit.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹedfɹuːt/

Noun

breadfruit (plural breadfruits or breadfruit)

1. An evergreen tree, Artocarpus altilis, native to islands of the east Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 53):

     There is also a fine tract of guano, inland, where grow limes, oranges, breadfruit and mummy-apples.

2. The large round fruit of this tree.

Synonyms

• (tree): breadfruit tree

Derived terms

• African breadfruit (Artocarpus treculianus and Treculia africana
• highland breadfruit (Ficus dammaropsis)
• Mexican breadfruit (Monstera deliciosa)
• seeded breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)

Translations

tree

• Bikol Central: kulo
• Catalan: arbre del pa m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麵包樹, 面包树 (miànbāoshù)

• Danish: brødfrugttræ n
• Esperanto: panarbo
• Finnish: leipäpuu (fi)
• French: arbre à pain (fr) m, artocarpus m, artocarpe (fr) m
• German: Brotfruchtbaum (de) m
• Ido: artokarpo (io)
• Indonesian: pohon sukun
• Irish: crann toraidh aráin m
• Japanese: パンの木 (パンノキ, pan no ki)

• Kazakh: астық ағашы (astıq ağaşı), нан ағашы (nan ağaşı)
• Malay: pokok sukun, pohon sukun, pokok kulur, pohon kulur
• Maori: pōporo, kuru, pōporohua, pōporohua, pōporohua
• Ngazidja Comorian: mfuriapa 3 or 4
• Portuguese: fruta-pão (pt) f
• Romanian: arbore de pâine m
• Russian: хле́бное де́рево n (xlébnoje dérevo)
• Spanish: árbol del pan m
• Swedish: brödfruktträd (sv) n
• Tagalog: rimas
• Thai: สาเก (th) (sake)
• Turkish: ekmek ağacı (tr)
• Vietnamese: cây sa kê
• Volapük: bodep

fruit

• Brunei Malay: sukun
• Burmese: ပေါင်မုန့်သီး (my) (paungmun.si:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 麵包果, 面包果 (miànbāoguǒ)

• Danish: brødfrugt c
• Esperanto: panfrukto
• Faroese: breyðfrukt f
• Fijian: uto (fj)
• Finnish: leipäpuun hedelmä
• French: fruit à pain (fr) m
• German: Brotfrucht f
• Gujarati: નીરફણસ (nīraphṇas)
• Hawaiian: ʻulu
• Ido: artokarpofrukto (io)
• Imonda: if
• Indonesian: sukun (id)
• Irish: toradh aráin m
• Japanese: パンの木の実 (pan no ki no mi)
• Kapampangan: kamansi
• Malay: kulur, sukun
• Maori: kuru, pōporo
• Marathi: नीरफणस (nīraphṇas)

• Marshallese: mā
• Motu: unu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brødfrukt m or f

  Nynorsk: brødfrukt f

• Portuguese: fruta-pão (pt) f
• Russian: плод хле́бного де́рева m (plod xlébnovo déreva)
• Samoan: 'ulu
• Samoan Plantation Pidgin: bresprut
• Sanskrit: पनस (sa) n (panasa)
• Seychellois Creole: friyapen
• Spanish: (general) fruto del árbol del pan; fruta de pan; (Dominican Republic) buen pan m; (Puerto Rico) pana (es) f; (Mexico) yaca f
• Swedish: brödfrukt (sv) c
• Tagalog: rimas, kamansi
• Tahitian: uru
• Thai: สาเก (th) (sake)
• Tok Pisin: kapiak
• Tolai: kapiaka
• Tongan: mei
• Turkish: ekmek ağacı (tr)
• Vietnamese: quả sa kê, trái sa kê
• Volapük: bodepafluk

Further reading

• breadfruit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Artocarpus altilis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Artocarpus altilis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons