candlenut

• Trees, such as the candlenut and the red-leaved dracaena, and odoriferous shrubs were planted round the enclosure; and outside of it, to the west of the Holy of Holies, was a bell-roofed hut called Vale tambu_, the Sacred House or Temple. —  The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
• The candlenut, the ama_, with its lilac bloom, the hibiscus and pandanus, green and glossy, the petavii_, a kind of banana the curving fronds of which spread high in air, the snake-plant, makomako_, a yellow-flowered shrub, and many others none of us could name, carpeted the farther mountain-sides with brilliant colors. —  White Shadows in the South Seas
• The ama_, the candlenut-tree, shed its oily nuts on the earth. —  White Shadows in the South Seas
• The blue of the candlenut-ink, in bizzare designs upon body and legs, had turned a scaly greenish hue from age and kava excesses. —  White Shadows in the South Seas
• It is the candlenut-tree, which has furnished lights for Tahitians since they wandered to these latitudes. —  Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

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