Word Meanings - QUEENSLANDNUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia). It is about an inch in diameter, and contains a single round edible seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds. So called from Queensland in Australia.

• Roundabout
  Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
• Round-shouldered
  Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
• Single-handed
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• ROUNDBACKED
  Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• 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.
• Roundaboutness
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• Roundsmen
  of Roundsman
• Single-hearted
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity.
• ROUNDSHOULDERED
  Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Round-arm
  Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.
• Roundsman
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• Single-minded
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
• ROUNDUP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. [Western U.S.]
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher

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