(obsolete) A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter.

plural of almond furnace

Salix triandra, a species of willow native to Europe and Western and Central Asia.

plural of almond-furnace

(metallurgy) A furnace in which slags of litharge left in refining silver are reduced to lead by being heated with charcoal.

The Indian almond, Terminalia catappa.

plural of tropical almond

plural of Indian almond

A tropical tree grown for its edible fruit, almondlike nuts, and as an ornamental shade tree, Terminalia catappa.

A tree of the species Prunus amygdalus (order Rosales). / The seed of this tree, which is unpalatably bitter and bears many times the cyanide of the sweet almond.