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noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
verb
intj
noun
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
noun
- The nutlike tuber of such a plant, especially peanuts.
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).
- Any similar plant having underground tubers.
- A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
- a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
- nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
noun
noun
noun
noun
- (rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
- (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. A state of being zesty.
- General vibrance of flavour.
- The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
- (slang, LGBTQ, derogatory) State of being a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual.
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- a tart spicy quality
verb
noun
- A nut of the walnut tree.
- nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell
- A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
- Wood of the walnut tree.
- Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
- any of various trees of the genus Juglans
- hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling
adj
noun
- The souari nut.
- oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
- A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.
- (informal outside South Africa) Butternut squash.
- The nut of this walnut tree.
- A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.
- The wood or bark of this walnut tree.
- North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
noun
- The nuts of the aforementioned tree.
- Juglans nigra, a tree native to eastern North America.
- Synonym of Queensland walnut (“Endiandra palmerstonii”).
- The wood of the aforementioned species.
- North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
- American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell
noun
- A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
- A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
- A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
- wood of a pecan tree
- tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
- smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
noun
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
- any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
- a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts
- Synonym of peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
- An underground tuber of a plant of the genus Tuber.
- A tuber belonging to the species Conopodium majus (syns. Bunium flexuosum, Conopodium denudatum), Bunium bulbocastanum (syn. Carum bulbocastanum), or Apios americana (syn. Apios tuberosa).
- A dwarf ginseng: Panax trifolius.
noun
verb
noun
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- a young child who is small for their age
- widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
- underground pod of the peanut vine
- (in the plural) See peanuts (“very small amount”).
- A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
- (US) Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
adj
verb
adj
noun
- volcanic rock in which rounded cavities formed by expanding gas have subsequently become filled with mineral deposits
- A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, especially agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
noun
noun
- (by extension) Ellipsis of nutcracker doll.
- An implement for cracking nuts.
- (ornithology) Any bird of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
- (informal) Something that is difficult to figure out; a puzzle.
- (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
- any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
- a compound lever used to crack nuts open
- speckled birds that feed on nuts
noun
adj
noun
- (countable) The tree that produces almonds.
- Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a tonsil.
- Prunus fasciculata, desert range almond or wild almond, North American shrub in family Rosaceae
- Prunus japonica, flowering almond, an ornamental shrub in family Rosaceae
- Brabejum stellatifolium or bitter almond, in family Proteaceae
- (uncountable) Flavour or other characteristics of almond.
- (countable) The seed within the drupe of a small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, considered a culinary nut.
- Terminalia catappa, Indian almond or tropical almond, in family Combretaceae
- (uncountable) The colour of an almond still covered by its skin, a shade of brown.
- bitter almond. of variety Prunus amygdalus var. amara, (syn. Prunus dulcis var. amara), that only produces bitter fruits
- Prunus andersonii, desert almond, a North American shrub in family Rosaceae
- (uncountable) The colour of the kernel of an almond without its shell and thin seed coat, a creamy off-white colour.
- oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree
- small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California
noun
- A nut or almond with a double kernel, as used to set a philopena.
- A game in which a person, on finding a double-kernelled almond or nut, may offer the second kernel to another person and demand a playful forfeit from that person to be paid on their next meeting. The forfeit may simply be to exchange the greeting "Good-day, Philopena" or it may be more elaborate. Philopenas were often played as a form of flirtation.
- The occasion on which a philopena is forfeited; the forfeit paid.
prep_phrase
noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
noun
- The nutlike tuber of such a plant, especially peanuts.
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).
- Any similar plant having underground tubers.
- A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
- a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
- nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
noun
noun
noun
noun
- (rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
- (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. A state of being zesty.
- General vibrance of flavour.
- The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
- (slang, LGBTQ, derogatory) State of being a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual.
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- a tart spicy quality
verb
noun
- A nut of the walnut tree.
- nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell
- A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
- Wood of the walnut tree.
- Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
- any of various trees of the genus Juglans
- hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling
adj
noun
- The souari nut.
- oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
- A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.
- (informal outside South Africa) Butternut squash.
- The nut of this walnut tree.
- A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.
- The wood or bark of this walnut tree.
- North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
noun
- The nuts of the aforementioned tree.
- Juglans nigra, a tree native to eastern North America.
- Synonym of Queensland walnut (“Endiandra palmerstonii”).
- The wood of the aforementioned species.
- North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
- American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell
noun
- A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
- A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
- A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
- wood of a pecan tree
- tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
- smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
noun
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
- any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
- a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts
- Synonym of peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
- An underground tuber of a plant of the genus Tuber.
- A tuber belonging to the species Conopodium majus (syns. Bunium flexuosum, Conopodium denudatum), Bunium bulbocastanum (syn. Carum bulbocastanum), or Apios americana (syn. Apios tuberosa).
- A dwarf ginseng: Panax trifolius.
noun
verb
noun
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- a young child who is small for their age
- widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
- underground pod of the peanut vine
- (in the plural) See peanuts (“very small amount”).
- A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
- (US) Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
adj
verb
noun
noun
- (by extension) Ellipsis of nutcracker doll.
- An implement for cracking nuts.
- (ornithology) Any bird of the genus Nucifraga in the crow family.
- (informal) Something that is difficult to figure out; a puzzle.
- (US, New York City) A bootleg mixed drink made from a blend of alcohols and fruit juices.
- any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
- a compound lever used to crack nuts open
- speckled birds that feed on nuts
noun
noun
- A nut or almond with a double kernel, as used to set a philopena.
- A game in which a person, on finding a double-kernelled almond or nut, may offer the second kernel to another person and demand a playful forfeit from that person to be paid on their next meeting. The forfeit may simply be to exchange the greeting "Good-day, Philopena" or it may be more elaborate. Philopenas were often played as a form of flirtation.
- The occasion on which a philopena is forfeited; the forfeit paid.
verb
intj
noun
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
adj
noun
- volcanic rock in which rounded cavities formed by expanding gas have subsequently become filled with mineral deposits
- A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, especially agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.
adj
noun
- (countable) The tree that produces almonds.
- Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a tonsil.
- Prunus fasciculata, desert range almond or wild almond, North American shrub in family Rosaceae
- Prunus japonica, flowering almond, an ornamental shrub in family Rosaceae
- Brabejum stellatifolium or bitter almond, in family Proteaceae
- (uncountable) Flavour or other characteristics of almond.
- (countable) The seed within the drupe of a small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, considered a culinary nut.
- Terminalia catappa, Indian almond or tropical almond, in family Combretaceae
- (uncountable) The colour of an almond still covered by its skin, a shade of brown.
- bitter almond. of variety Prunus amygdalus var. amara, (syn. Prunus dulcis var. amara), that only produces bitter fruits
- Prunus andersonii, desert almond, a North American shrub in family Rosaceae
- (uncountable) The colour of the kernel of an almond without its shell and thin seed coat, a creamy off-white colour.
- oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree
- small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California