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monkeypuzzle

monkeypuzzle is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of monkeypuzzle

pluralmonkeypuzzles

Questions about monkeypuzzle

What is monkeypuzzle the alternative spelling of?
Monkeypuzzle is the alternative spelling of monkey puzzle.

Words near monkeypuzzle in the dictionary

  1. monkeypod
  2. monkeypods
  3. monkeypot
  4. monkeypots
  5. monkeypox
  6. monkeypuzzle
  7. monkeypuzzles
  8. monkeyronies
  9. monkeyrony
  10. monkeyrun
  11. monkeyruns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monkeypuzzle (page history and authors); monkey puzzle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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