monkey puzzle

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   large Chilean evergreen conifer having intertwined branches and bearing edible nuts

   Synonymschile pineAraucaria araucana

   Broaderaraucaria

Questions about monkey puzzle

What does monkey puzzle mean?

monkey puzzle means "large Chilean evergreen conifer having intertwined branches and bearing edible nuts".

What is another word for monkey puzzle?

Close synonyms include chile pine, Araucaria araucana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monkey puzzle a common word?

monkey puzzle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.