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SPICE |
Nutmeg |
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MACE |
Nutmeg-like spice |
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NUTMEGGED |
Seasoned with nutmeg. |
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EGG |
A little nutmeg gift at Easter |
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MYRISTIN |
The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in
nutmeg butter, etc. |
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OTOBA FAT |
A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of
Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tree. |
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GRATE |
To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything
rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg. |
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NEGUS |
A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon
juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus. |
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NUTMEG |
The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica
fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in
the tropics. |
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RUMINATED |
Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels
filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North
American papaw. |
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MYRISTIC |
Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica).
Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat,
and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance. |
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PICHURIM BEAN |
The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra
Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras,
-- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut. |
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ARILLUS |
A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to
a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white
water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. |
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NICKER NUT |
A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a
hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in
the prickly pods o... |
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MUSKMELON |
...oval form and yellowish
flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of
Melon. ... |