Meaning
A close relative of the breadfruit whose fruit is packed with large edible seeds rather than solid flesh. The seeds ('breadnuts') are boiled or roasted and eaten like chestnuts — starchy, nutty, and filling. A traditional country food that stretched the pot in hard times.
Examples
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Roast di breadnut pon di fire.
Roast the breadnut seeds on the fire.
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Boil breadnut taste like chestnut.
Boiled breadnut tastes like chestnut.
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Di breadnut tree full a seed.
The breadnut tree is full of seeds.
Origin
From 'bread' + 'nut'; the seeded relative of breadfruit (Artocarpus). See [[breadfruit]].
How it’s used
Breadfruit's seeded cousin; the seeds boiled/roasted like chestnuts. See [[breadfruit]], [[grung-provision]].