The hard seed capsule of the marri tree.
they threw honky nuts at the parrots
Example sentencesExamples
- The girls trod gingerly over dry and decayed honky nuts that had fallen from the marri gum.
- It's a stretch of road lined with honky nut trees.
- What I think of as a proper honky nut is about the size of the last section of your thumb, and vaguely spiked.
- We used to collect them by the bucket load at school and have honky nut wars between teams of kids.
- Did you throw a honky nut, Jimmy?
- I don't know what the correct name is for these things, but as kids, we called any sort of large nut a "honky nut".
- We walked around the oval and picked some more honky nuts and pine cones.
- He balanced a honky-nut on his head.
- How about climbing trees to chuck honky-nuts at your annoying little brothers?
- He showed him some of the honky nuts lying near his tree.