Circassian walnut

Circassian walnut

n.

A type of English walnut, patterned with swirls and curves in shades of brown or with occasional black streaks, used for veneer and cabinetwork.

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Noun

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Circassian walnut - Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated English walnut, English walnut tree, Juglans regia, Persian walnut English walnut - nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively thin shell; widely used in cooking genus Juglans, Juglans - type genus of the Juglandaceae walnut tree, walnut - any of various trees of the genus Juglans