baobab
noun/ˈbeɪəʊbæb/
/ˈbeɪəʊbæb/
- a short thick tree, found especially in Africa and Australia, that lives for many yearsTopics Plants and treesc2Word 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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