Candlenut

Synonyms for "candlenut" (3 found)

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Noun(1 words)

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Related words (1)

Noun(1 words)

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Translations

20 translations across 9 languages.

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Fijian

2 entries
  • tuitui noun (tree)
  • tuitui noun (seed)

Hawaiian

2 entries
  • kukui noun (tree)
  • kukui noun (seed)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • kemiri noun (seed)

Makasar

1 entries
  • sapiri noun (tree)

Malay

4 entries
  • buah keras noun (tree)
  • buah keras noun (seed)
  • keminting noun (tree)
  • keminting noun (seed)

Swahili

1 entries
  • mkaa noun (tree)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • lumbang noun (tree)

Tahitian

4 entries
  • tutui noun (tree)
  • tutui noun (seed)
  • tutuʻi noun (tree)
  • tutuʻi noun (seed)

Tongan

2 entries
  • tuitui noun (tree)
  • tuitui noun (seed)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

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In both respects, as I have already pointed out, they differed from the Polynesians who brought with them to their island homes not only their language but their agriculture, from the cradle of their race in the Malay Archipelago; cuttings of seedless breadfruit and of sugarcane, fleshy roots of taro and yams; even trees, like the Indian almond and the candlenut.

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The scene under the candlenut torches was as familiar to us as the Ohio River of Uncle Tom to the small-town schoolboy; the meager rows of three-quarter naked Kanakas, yellow with saffron and blue with tattooer's ink; the old women in the background of sultry lights and enormous shadows compounding endless balls of popoi for the feast; the local and desceptered chieftain squatting on his hams and guarding the vanished gallon between his knees; this was all as it should have been.

Source: wiktionary

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