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

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

Amygdalate :: Amygdalate (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or made of, almonds..

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

Macrocystis :: Macrocystis (n.) An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels..

Nougat :: Nougat (n.) A cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts..

Emulsin :: Emulsin (n.) The white milky pulp or extract of bitter almonds.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Almondine :: Almondine (n.) See Almandin.

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

Nitrobenzene :: Nitrobenzene (n.) A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol..

Amandine :: Amandine (n.) The vegetable casein of almonds.

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