In Tonga, even today, ripe nuts, named tuitui are pounded into a paste, tukilamulamu, and used as soap or shampoo.

The ripe nuts separate from the ball and are floated away on the tide, occasionally germinating while still water-borne.

"And pray," asked Peterkin, "what sort of 'stuff' does the ripe nut contain?"

He coaxed the small creature closer by holding out ripe nuts in his great Thennanin hands.

There was a high hedge of hazel on either side and you could see clusters of ripe brown nuts in their green jackets.

Daniel nodded to the sailor's queries and clipped another ripe nut as he listened.

The seams then split from the base upwards and may or may not completely separate from the ripe nut.

He swarmed up a tree, and presently threw down a ripe nut.

First it chooses ripe nuts from a nut palm.

"Have you seen the ripe nut?"