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.
- Monkey-bread
The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia. - 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. - Haveless
Having little or nothing. - 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. - Havelock
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - 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. - Brazilian
Of or pertaining to Brazil. - 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.
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