breadnut
- noun
- Philippine
:
semilla de pan de fruta
- She roasted a handful of breadnut to eat with rice and beans for dinner.
Examples
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Farmers harvest breadnut during the rainy season for local markets.
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The breadnut is a nutritious food source in many tropical regions.
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I love to eat breadnut in my salads.
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What is your favorite way to cook breadnut?
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She roasted a handful of breadnut to eat with rice and beans for dinner.
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The breadnut is a nutritious food source in many tropical regions.
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Farmers harvest breadnut during the rainy season for local markets.
Synonyms
340
1.0
A small seed that grows in a pod underground and is eaten as a snack
337
1.0
A large hard seed with a shell that you can eat
14
4.6
A round edible nut with a rich buttery flavor
12
1.8
Small seeds from sunflowers eaten as a snack, used in cooking or pressed for oil
11
3.9
A small pale green nut people eat, often roasted or used in sweets
9
3.9
A hard round seed with a sweet, creamy taste often used in cooking and baking
1
2.8
A small green seed from a tree that you eat as a snack or in cooking
1
2.0
A hard-shelled seed with an edible part inside, like an almond or walnut
1
3.0
A small shell from the peanut plant that holds two nuts often eaten as a snack
1
6.1
A peanut that is still in its shell, often with two nuts inside
An edible seed from some pine trees eaten as a snack or used in cooking
An oily seed used for oil in varnish and sometimes for cooking
The pod of the peanut plant that holds the edible nuts
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Breadnut comes from the English words bread and nut, which mean 'bread' and 'nut'. The seed is called this because it is nut-like and people often cook or roast it and eat it like a bread.