edible nut

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edible nut - a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell bunya bunya - nut tasting like roasted chestnuts; a staple food of Australian aborigines goober, goober pea, monkey nut, groundnut, earthnut, peanut - pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms almond - oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree quandong nut - edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit beechnut - small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees walnut - nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell brazil, brazil nut - three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell butternut - oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family souari nut - a large nutlike seed of a South American tree cashew nut, cashew - kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted chestnut - edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin - small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut cob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut - nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus cocoanut, coconut - large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk grugru nut - nut of Brazilian or West Indian palms hickory nut - small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories macadamia nut - nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat pecan - smooth brown oval nut of south central United States pignolia, pine nut, pinon nut - edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America pistachio nut, pistachio - nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel nut - usually large hard-shelled seed