Chile nut
- noun
- /ˈtʃɪle nʌt/
- Specialized
:
nuez de Chile
- The Chile nut is prized for its delicious, hazelnut-like flavor in South American cuisine.
Examples
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The Chile nut tree grows in the coastal regions of Chile.
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She bought a bag of roasted Chile nuts at the local market.
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Botanists study the Chile nut to better understand its potential as a crop.
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I love the taste of Chile nuts in my salads.
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The Chile nut is prized for its delicious, hazelnut-like flavor in South American cuisine.
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She bought a bag of roasted Chile nuts at the local market.
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Botanists study the Chile nut to better understand its potential as a crop.
Synonyms
A Chilean shrub with coral red fruit and edible seeds like hazelnuts
Chilean shrub that makes red fruit with an edible seed like a hazelnut
A Chilean shrub that makes red fruit with an edible seed like a hazelnut
A Chilean shrub that produces red fruit with an edible seed like a hazelnut
A small Chilean bush that makes red fruit with edible seeds like hazelnuts
A group of trees from Chile that produce edible nuts
Surface Forms
Morphology
Chile + nut
The compound is simply a country name + noun (Chile + nut), so an English learner who knows 'Chile' and 'nut' can infer it refers to a nut associated with Chile (a Chilean nut/tree). This demonymal noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows transparent compositional logic, so the meaning is predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Chile nut probably gets its name from the country Chile and the word nut, because the shrub makes an edible seed that looks like a hazelnut. So, Chile nut means the 'edible seed' of a Chilean shrub used like other nuts.
