Word Meanings - BELZEBUTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

• Spiderlike
  Like a spider.
• Spider web
  Alt. of Spider's web
• Spider's web
  The silken web which is formed by most kinds of spiders, particularly the web spun to entrap their prey. See Geometric spider, Triangle spider, under Geometric, and Triangle.
• Spiderwort
  An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.
• MONKEYBREAD
  The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.
• Brazil wood
  The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.
• MONKEYSPUZZLE
  A lofty coniferous Chilian tree (Araucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called piñon by the Chilians.

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