Kaffir Bread, a name given to several South African species of Encephalartos, which, like many others of their order (Cycadaceæ, q.v.), have much starch in their stems, and afford a kind of sago and a not unnutritious bread.
Kaffir Bread
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 386
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