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wal·nut  (wôlnt, -nt) n. 1. a. Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Juglans, having pinnately compound leaves and a round, sticky outer fruit wall that encloses a nutlike stone with an edible seed. b. The stone or the ridged or corrugated seed of such a tree. 2. The hard, dark brown wood of any of these trees, used for gunstocks and in cabinetwork. [Middle English walnot, from Old English wealhhnutu : wealh, Celt, foreigner + hnutu, nut.] walnut adj.

walnut black walnut Juglans nigra

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walnut

Noun

1. an edible nut with a hard, wrinkled, light brown shell

2. a tree on which walnuts grow

3. the light brown wood of a walnut tree, used for making furniture [Old English walh-hnutu foreign nut]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	walnut - nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell edible nut - a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell black walnut - American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell English walnut - nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively thin shell; widely used in cooking walnut tree, walnut - any of various trees of the genus Juglans
	2.	walnut - hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling walnut tree, walnut - any of various trees of the genus Juglans wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
	3.	walnut - any of various trees of the genus Juglans walnut tree walnut - nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell genus Juglans, Juglans - type genus of the Juglandaceae walnut - hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling 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 nut tree - tree bearing edible nuts

Translations

walnut [ˈwɔːlnʌt] n → nuez f;

(tree) → nogal m

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walnut [ˈwɔːlnʌt] n → noix f (= tree, wood); noyer m

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walnut [ˈwɔːlnʌt] n (nut) → Walnuss f;

(tree) → Walnussbaum m;

(wood) → Nussbaumholz nt

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walnut [ˈwɔːlnʌt] n → noce f;

(tree) → noce m