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Monkey Puzzle

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Noun

1. araucaria araucana, chile pine, monkey puzzle

large Chilean evergreen conifer having intertwined branches and bearing edible nuts

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Monkey Puzzle

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noun
a South American coniferous tree, Araucaria araucana, having branches shaped like a candelabrum and stiff sharp leaves: family Araucariaceae
. Also called: Chile pine

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Monkey Puzzle

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any araucaria tree; esp., a tall tree (Araucaria araucana) with stiff pointed leaves, edible nuts, and hard wood, widely grown as an ornamental

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Monkey Puzzle

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n.
A coniferous evergreen tree (Araucaria araucana) native to Chile and Argentina, having whorled branches covered with scalelike, overlapping, sharp-pointed leaves.

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