baobab
noun /ˈbeɪəʊbæb/
/ˈbeɪəʊbæb/
- a short thick tree, found especially in Africa and Australia, that lives for many years
猴面包树（尤见于非洲和澳大利亚，生命力强） 词源mid 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.