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Flowering :: Flowering (a.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc..

Almond :: Almond (n.) One of the tonsils.

Marchpane :: Marchpane (n.) A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar.

Macaroon :: Macaroon (n.) A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar..

Almond :: Almond (n.) The tree that bears the fruit; almond tree.

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The almond furnace.

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds..

Amygdaliferous :: Amygdaliferous (a.) Almond-bearing.

Drupe :: Drupe (n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut..

Synapticulae :: Synaptase (n.) A ferment resembling diastase, found in bitter almonds. Cf. Amygdalin, and Emulsin..

Almond :: Almond (n.) Anything shaped like an almond.

Milk :: Milk (n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water..

Marmottes Oil :: Marmottes oil () A fine oil obtained from the kernel of Prunus brigantiaca. It is used instead of olive or almond oil.

Nut :: Nut (n.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel..

Orgeat :: Orgeat (n.) A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles..

Amygdalaceous :: Amygdalaceous (a.) Akin to, or derived from, the almond..

Almond Furnace :: Almond furnace () A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter..

Amygdaloidal :: Amygdaloidal (a.) Almond-shaped.

Amarine :: Amarine (n.) A characteristic crystalline substance, obtained from oil of bitter almonds..

Pistachio :: Pistachio (n.) The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily..

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