monkey pot

noun

1

a

: a large woody urn-shaped operculate fruit characteristic of the sapucaias and various closely related trees (as the manbarklaks)

b

: sapucaia

also : manbarklak

2

: a pot used in glassmaking

specifically : any of several round-topped oval cylinders enclosed in firebrick arches at the base of a chimney and used as melting pots in making of flint glass

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