Word Meanings - MONKEYSPUZZLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Crowding
  of Crowd
• PUZZLER
  One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes. Hebrew, the general puzzler of old heads. Brome.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Puzzled
  of Puzzle
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Araucaria
  A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous ro
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Crowder
  One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler.
• Puzzledom
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively.
• Araucarian
  Relating to, or of the nature of, the Araucaria. The earliest conifers in geological history were mostly Araucarian.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Puzzle-headed
  Having the head full of confused notions.

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