almond : Idioms & Phrases

• noun very rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shaped
  almond cookie.
  

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• noun very rich cookie containing ground almonds; usually crescent-shaped
  almond cookie.
  

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• noun flavoring made from almonds macerated in alcohol
  

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Al"mond fur`nace

Etymology

Prob. a corruption of Almain furnace, i. e., German furnace. See Almain.

Definitions

1. A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.

Webster 1913

• noun a moth whose larvae feed on and mat together with webbing various stored products of vegetable origin
  Cadra cautella; fig moth.
  

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• noun pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds
  almond oil; expressed almond oil.
  

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• fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds.

Webster 1913

• noun any of several small bushy trees having pink or white blossoms and usually bearing nuts
  

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• (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond.

Webster 1913

• noun Old World willow with light green leaves cultivated for use in basketry
  black Hollander; Salix triandra; Salix amygdalina.
  

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• (Bot.), a willow which has leaves that are of a light green on both sides; almond-leaved willow (Salix amygdalina). Shenstone.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite having almond-shaped eyes
  

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• noun willow of the western United States with leaves like those of peach or almond trees
  peachleaf willow; Salix amygdaloides; peach-leaved willow.
  

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• adjective satellite smelling of almond
  

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• adjective satellite shaped like an almond
  amygdaliform; amygdaloidal; amygdaloid.
  

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• noun almond trees having white blossoms and poisonous nuts yielding an oil used for flavoring and for medicinal purposes
  Amygdalus communis amara; Prunus dulcis amara.
  

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• noun pale yellow essential oil obtained from bitter almonds by distillation from almond cake or meal
  

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• noun small Chinese shrub with smooth unfurrowed dark red fruit grown especially for its red or pink or white flowers
  Prunus glandulosa.
  

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• noun Asiatic shrub cultivated for its rosy red flowers
  Prunus tenella; dwarf Russian almond.
  

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• noun European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
  chufa; yellow nutgrass; Cyperus esculentus; rush nut; earth almond.
  

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• noun pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds
  almond oil; expressed almond oil.
  

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• noun deciduous Chinese shrub or small tree with often trilobed leaves grown for its pink-white flowers
  Prunus triloba.
  
• noun woody oriental plant with smooth unfurrowed red fruit grown especially for its white or pale pink blossoms
  oriental bush cherry; Prunus japonica.
  

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• noun European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers
  chufa; yellow nutgrass; Cyperus esculentus; rush nut; earth almond.
  

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• nitrobenzene.

Webster 1913

• noun variety of large almond from Malaga, Spain; used in confectionery
  
• noun an almond covered with a sugar coating that is hard and flavored and colored
  

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• a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde.

Webster 1913

• noun Asiatic shrub cultivated for its rosy red flowers
  Prunus tenella; dwarf Russian almond.
  

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• noun small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California
  almond; Amygdalus communis; Prunus dulcis; Prunus amygdalus.
  

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• noun pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds
  almond oil; expressed almond oil.
  

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