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Definition of baobab noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

baobab

noun
 
/ˈbeɪəʊbæb/
 
/ˈbeɪəʊbæb/
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  1. a short thick tree, found especially in Africa and Australia, that lives for many yearsTopics Plants and treesc2
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: probably from an African language; first recorded in Latin (1592), in a treatise on the plants of Egypt by the Italian botanist Prosper Alpinus.
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