Word Meanings - LECYTHIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceae, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.

• Open-mouthed
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous.
• Papery
  Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper.
• OPENSEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• Monkey-bread
  The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.
• Monkey-cup
  See Nepenthes.
• Openness
  The quality or state of being open.
• Sapucaia
  A Brazilian tree. See Lecythis, and Monkey-pot.
• OPENVERDICT
  A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the criminal, or finding the fact of a violent death without disclosing the cause.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Monkey-pot
  The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are m
• Openwork
  Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• Monkey's puzzle
  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 pion by the Chilians.
• Brazilian
  Of or pertaining to Brazil.

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