almond vs flake

almond

noun
  • Prunus japonica, flowering almond, an ornamental shrub in family Rosaceae 

  • A type of tree nut. 

  • Prunus dulcis var. amara, bitter almond, a variety that only produces bitter fruits 

  • Flavor or other characteristics of almond. 

  • The colour of the kernel of an almond without its shell and thin seed coat, a creamy off-white colour. 

  • The color of an almond still covered by its skin, a shade of brown. 

  • Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a tonsil. 

  • Brabejum stellatifolium or bitter almond, in family Proteaceae 

  • Prunus andersonii, desert almond, a North American shrub in family Rosaceae 

  • A small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, that produces predominantly sweet almonds. 

  • Terminalia catappa, Indian almond or tropical almond, in family Combretaceae 

  • Prunus fasciculata, desert range almond or wild almond, North American shrub in family Rosaceae 

adj
  • Brownish, resembling the colour of an almond nut. 

flake

noun
  • A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes. 

  • A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota. 

  • A scale of a fish or similar animal 

  • A wire rack for drying fish. 

  • The meat of the gummy shark. 

  • Dogfish. 

  • A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything 

  • A paling; a hurdle. 

  • A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living. 

  • A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. 

  • A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc. 

  • A flat turn or tier of rope. 

  • A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone. 

verb
  • To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. 

  • To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest. 

  • To break or chip off in a flake. 

  • To hit (another person). 

  • To lay out on a flake for drying. 

  • To store an item such as rope or sail in layers 

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