Ăd'an-sō'ni-ă, n.

n. [From Adanson, a celebrated traveler of the 17th century.] (Bot.) The famous African tree, called the Baobab, or Monkey's Bread, or African Calabash. It attains a height of seventy or eighty feet, with twice that diameter of shade. The fruit resembles a gourd, and is about ten inches long; the bark and leaves are used for many purposes by the negroes. Loudon.