Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coniferous evergreen tree (Araucaria araucana) native to Chile and Argentina, having whorled branches covered with scalelike, overlapping, sharp-pointed leaves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Chili pine, Araucaria imbricata.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It looks much as EZ describes it, except that there is no longer a monkey-puzzle tree.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jean 2009
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On my last day in motion pictures I found myself at the top of a monkey-puzzle tree in England, helping to settle a wager between that marvelous light comedian and wit Rex Harrison and his wife, the actress Rachel Roberts, and thinking, This is gonna look great in the obituaries, isn't it?
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Next to it, a new HQ for the city's daily newspaper was at present a giant monkey-puzzle of steel girders.
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Next to it, a new HQ for the city's daily newspaper was at present a giant monkey-puzzle of steel girders.
Set in Darkness Rankin, Ian 2000
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She climbed into the tree house and planted a monkey-puzzle tree.
Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983
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Irene climbed on up and into her monkey-puzzle chamber.
Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983
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The view was much the same as that seen from the bathroom, only that instead of grass and flower-beds there was a gravel sweep, and, just opposite the front door, a circle of grass with a tall monkey-puzzle tree in the centre.
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"He's a sort of walking monkey-puzzle, I guess," said the voice, and a roguish laugh followed the words.
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The laws which regulate the shape of a chalk down or an ivy tendril are just as severe as the laws which regulate the monkey-puzzle tree or the talc crystal.
The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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The moon is a-shinin 'in the monkey-puzzle tree! "
King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923
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