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cream-of-tartar tree

noun

Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd

• Syn: ↑sour gourd, ↑Adansonia gregorii

• Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree

• Member Holonyms: ↑Adansonia, ↑genus Adansonia

• Part Meronyms: ↑sour gourd

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noun

Etymology: so called from the taste of the fruit

: a desert tree (Adansonia gregorii) of northern Australia that produces an agreeably acid fruit — called also Australian baobab, sour gourd

Useful english dictionary. 2012.