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durian

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Durian is a large odorous spike-covered fruit of several southeast Asian tree species belonging to the genus Durio . Durian may refer to: Durian Durian , 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Fruit Chan Durian Tunggal , small town in Melaka state Malaysia Ohan ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Durio \Du"ri*o\, n. [NL., fr. Malay d?ri thorn.] (Bot.) A fruit tree ( Durio zibethinus , the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind [syn: durion , durian tree , Durio zibethinus ] huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts

Usage examples of durian.

His headshaking grew more and more pronounced each time Jani alluded to the possibility that Durian Ridgeway had purposely withheld information.

Colonel Doyle and Durian uncovered evidence that, for the past several years, my loving spouse kept Exterior well informed of the goings-on here.

If anything happened to you, Durian would have found an excuse to search your suite.

With equal parts alcohol and Durian Ridgeway fertilizing the seeds of doubt.

StafMit did it in hope that, in the flood of applications, the screening committee Durian chaired would miss the fact that via a blind trust, Gisela Detmers-Neumann held a significant financial stake in the company.

Nevertheless, with water and wild durian they made a kind of breakfast, sitting on the concrete bank beside the log.

The durian fell with a heavy thump, an object the size and shape of a coconut but covered with strong thickset spikes.

Ugly spikes: I have had several patients with dangerous lacerated wounds from a durian falling on their heads.

Ananda brought him a bowl of cold brown rice with salted green durian as a relish, and when it was eaten asked him - the first personal question since they met - where he would like to sleep.

Who will eat of the fruit of the one durian which I have nurtured so carefully and fostered so fondly?

Since the durian is endemic in a very restricted portion of the globe, and since those who have watched the vital process may be comparatively few in number and therefore unlikely to be jaded by the truisms of these pages, a few words in explanation may not be resented.

The seed of the durian is roughly cordate, about an inch and a quarter long.

The Dyaks, who are passionately fond of the durian, distinguished it by the title of DIEN, which signifies the fruit PAR EXCELLENCE.

Like the durian, the sapodilla plum grows all too slowly for my precipitate tastes, though I console myself plenteously with mangoes.

She wields a gleaming machete and chops the durian in half, revealing the clean yellow slime of its interior with its fat gleaming pits.