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monkey puzzles

monkey puzzles is the plural of monkey puzzle.

Meaning of monkey puzzle

Noun

monkey puzzle (plural monkey puzzles)

  1. A large coniferous tree, Araucaria araucana, native to Chile.
    • They could see the small stone house where she used to live, with a monkey puzzle in front of it like a moustache.1951, Victor Sawdon Pritchett, Mr Beluncle, New York: The Modern Library, published 2005, page 88

Questions about monkey puzzles

What is monkey puzzles the plural of?
Monkey puzzles is the plural of monkey puzzle.

Words near monkey puzzles in the dictionary

  1. monkey pump
  2. monkey pumps
  3. monkey puzzle
  4. monkey puzzle tree
  5. monkey puzzle trees
  6. monkey puzzles
  7. monkey rail
  8. monkey rails
  9. monkey rum
  10. monkey rums
  11. monkey run

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