Definitionn. tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind
Last update: June 7, 2015
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Among the chief productions of the plains are rice (the staple export of the country); pepper (chiefly from Chantabun); sirih, sago, sugar-cane, coco-nut and betel, Palmyra or sugar and attap palms; many forms of banana and other fruit, such as durian, orange-pommelo, guava, bread-fruit, mango, jack fruit, pine-apple, custard-apple and mangosteen. [Please select]
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FOOTNOTES: [6] The Durian, a peculiarly favourite fruit in several of the Eastern Islands. [Please select]
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Wallace, "became a confirmed Durian eater" from that day. [Please select]
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It picked up the Durian which lay there and began to devour it. [Please select]
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The nest was a loose structure almost globular, but open at the top, composed externally of very coarse dry grass (lallung or elephant-grass), and lined with green durian leaves cut into small bits. [Please select]
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