almond
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- noun
- /ˈɑlmənd/
- The farmers harvested the almond crop carefully to ensure the best quality nuts.
- an almond tree
- an almond orchard
- almond blossoms
Examples
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She's rich, and she's holding the deed to an almond farm that I very much want for myself.
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Listen, a woman was just in here buying almond cookies.
Fiction book (2002) -
Well, this is an almond tree.
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So in February or March, beginning of March, our almond trees are in flowering.
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I grow almonds.
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In front of the picture were a brass bowl of almonds and a few wilted white chrysanthemums.
Fiction book (1998) -
We strolled through a public garden with almond bushes and a few well-groomed blond men in sight.
Fiction book (1998) -
Standing here still are the dead trunks of giant almond trees that I've seen my father wrestling to uproot.
Fiction book (1994) -
Storekeeper fetches a bag of almonds, scoops out a long spoonful, and looks questioningly at Lacis.
Fiction book (1995) -
In spring, the almond tree blossoms with beautiful pink flowers.
Synonyms
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A small tree with pink or white flowers that produces edible nuts
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A small tree that makes edible nuts with a hard shell and pink flowers
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A small tree with pink spring flowers that makes almonds you can eat
A small tree with pink flowers that produces edible almonds
A small tree that loses its leaves and has pink flowers and edible almonds
An old local word for the almond tree or the nut it produces
Compounds
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A pale yellow oil from almonds that people use for cooking and for skin or hair
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An oil from bitter almonds that people use to add an almond smell or taste to food and perfume
A small decorative bush from China with many pink, red, or white flowers
- Specialized
A small moth whose caterpillars eat and make webs in stored nuts and grain
- Specialized
A willow tree that grows in the western United States with leaves shaped like almonds
- Specialized
A pale yellow oil made by pressing almonds used for cooking, skin care, and medicine
Surface Forms
Etymology
Almond for the tree also comes from the same old Greek amygdalē through Latin and Old French, where people used the same name for the nut and the tree that makes it. That's why an almond tree is the plant that produces those nuts and its pink blossoms.