jack fruit

See also: jackfruit and jack-fruit

English

Noun

jack fruit (plural jack fruits or jack fruit)

  1. Alternative spelling of jackfruit.
    • 1972, Arthur H. Westing, “Herbicidal Damage to Cambodia”, in Harvest of Death: Chemical Warfare in Vietnam and Cambodia, New York, N.Y.: Free Press; London: Collier-Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, part II (Herbicides), pages 185 and 194:
      At the time of our inspection, eight months and one growing season later, we found that most jack fruit, many kapok trees, and some guava trees (all dicotyledons) had died in the interim. […] These farmers’ then current crops of vegetables of numerous kinds, of pineapples, of guavas, of jack fruit, of papayas, and of many, many more, were simply destroyed.
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