A tree of the species Brabejum stellatifolium (order Proteales).
The seed of this tree, which is unpalatably bitter and bears many times the cyanide of the sweet almond.
A tree of the species Prunus amygdalus (order Rosales).
Brabejum stellatifolium, native to South Africa
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, almond. A wild-growing almond tree (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis), native to the Middle East and South Asia.
Prunus fasciculata, native to the southwestern United States
Sterculia foetida, native to the Old World tropics
Irvingia malayana, native to southeast Asia
Prunus turneriana, native to Papua New Guinea and Australia