Sentence:  The scene under the <WSD>candlenut</WSD> torches was as familiar to us as the Ohio River of Uncle Tom to the small-town schoolboy; the meager rows of three-quarter naked Kanakas, yellow with saffron and blue with tattooer's ink; the old women in the background of sultry lights and enormous shadows compounding endless balls of "popoi" for the feast; the local and desceptered chieftain squatting on his hams and guarding the vanished gallon between his knees; this was all as it should have been. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The seed of this tree, used as a candle