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This
opens into two nearly equal longitudinal valves, inclosing the nut
surrounded by its aril, which is mace The nutmeg is an
aromatic, very grateful to the taste and smell, and much used in
cookery. Other species of Myristica yield nutmegs of inferior
quality.

American, Calabash, or
Jamaica, nutmeg, the fruit of
a tropical shrub (Monodora Myristica). It is about the size of
an orange, and contains many aromatic seeds imbedded in pulp. --
Brazilian nutmeg, the fruit of a lauraceous
tree, Cryptocarya moschata. -- California
nutmeg, tree of the Yew family (Torreya
Californica), growing in the Western United States, and having a
seed which resembles a nutmeg in appearance, but is strongly
impregnated with turpentine. -- Clove nutmeg,
the Ravensara aromatica, a laura ceous tree of Madagascar.
The foliage is used as a spice, but the seed is acrid and
caustic. -- Jamaica nutmeg. See American
nutmeg (above). -- Nutmeg bird
(Zoöl.), an Indian finch (Munia
punctularia).

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