Queensland nut

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noun

macadamia.

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Origin of Queensland nut

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby Queensland nut

Queensland arrowroot, Queensland blue, Queensland cane toad, Queenslander, Queensland lungfish, Queensland nut, Queen's pattern, queen's-pawn openings, Queen's proctor, Queen's Regulations, queen's scout

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How to use Queensland nut in a sentence

Beech-Nut is still in existence, and is the third largest baby food manufacturer in the United States.
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White King Soap sponsored the show on the West Coast, and Beech-Nut Gum in the East.
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The Donbass region is a harder nut to crack—the Ukrainians are determined to keep it.
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During the first 32 minutes of Left Behind, the message is this: Christians are nut jobs.
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Bob McDonnell went from GOP family-values godsend to blaming everything on his ‘nut bag’ wife.
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This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.
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It is prepared from the nut of the areca palm, one of the most beautiful trees in the world.
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For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.
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We had each of us a fresh cocoa-nut with a hole bored in it, containing at least a pint of clear, sweet-tasting water.
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It is about the size of a nut, with a brown verrucous outside; the edible part is white and tender, and the kernel black.
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British Dictionary definitions for Queensland nut

Queensland nut

noun

another name for macadamia

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