monkey-puzzlern.
/ˈmʌŋkɪˌpʌzlə/, /ˈmʌŋkɪˌpʌzl̩ə/, U.S. /ˈməŋkiˈˌpəz(ə)lər/ = monkey-puzzle n. 1.
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1876 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 421/2 They went to see the shrubberies, the copper-beech, the monkey-puzzler, the hollow tree with the peep-hole.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. iii. iii. 298 In the shade of a monkey-puzzler or in the lee of some india~rubber plant.
1936 E. Waugh Mr. Loveday's Outing 9 The weather..had suddenly blackened into a squall. There had been a scuttle for cover;..a table-cloth lofted to the boughs of the monkey-puzzler, fluttering in the rain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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