Juglans

Jug´lans

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(Bot.) A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.

Thesaurus

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Juglans - type genus of the Juglandaceae       genus Juglans dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination family Juglandaceae, Juglandaceae, walnut family - trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans walnut tree, walnut - any of various trees of the genus Juglans California black walnut, Juglans californica - medium-sized tree with somewhat aromatic compound leaves and edible nuts butternut, butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut - North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye black walnut, black walnut tree, Juglans nigra, black hickory - North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut Circassian walnut, English walnut, English walnut tree, Juglans regia, Persian walnut - Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated