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ground almond

ground almond

9.9
A small European plant with edible tubers that look like nuts
  • noun
  • UK
translation icon : almendra molida
  • Another variant of barley water in France, called orgemonde, was flavored with ground almonds.

Examples

  • For a smoother texture in your cake, use ground almond instead of regular flour.

  • You can make a delicious pudding by mixing coconut milk with ground almond and honey.

  • Milk ozyat was boiled, spiced milk, cooled, and mixed with ground almonds; and special ozyat glasses with handles were designed to serve it in.

    Academic text (1994)

  • "Subsequently, the barley dropped out and English ozyat was made from ground almonds and sugar with orange flower water or the juice of citrus fruits boiled with spring water."

    Academic text (1994)

  • The recipe calls for a quarter cup of ground almond to give it a rich nutty flavor.

Synonyms

nutsedge
vsground almond
1 9.9

A plant like grass with small edible nutlike parts under the ground

is limited to a European single species rather than broad genus references
Cyperus rotundus
vsground almond
  • Specialized
9.9

A common weed that has small edible tubers like tiny potatoes underground

is the European reference rather than the globally widespread species
rush nut
vsground almond
  • Archaic
9.9

A plant that grows near water and has nut-like parts you can eat

is the same regionally but names a single species rather than a group
nut sedge
vsground almond
8.5

A grass-like plant with small round edible underground tubers that often grows as a weed

is more narrowly the European species rather than the general perennial
nutgrass
vsground almond
8.9

A grass-like plant with small edible nutlike roots often seen as a weed

is instead a European plant noted for edible tubers, not the weed focus

Surface Forms

ground almond singular
ground almonds plural

Morphology

grind + almond

The phrase is compositionally built from 'ground' (the past participle/adjective of 'grind', meaning reduced to a powder) + 'almond', so its meaning as almonds that have been finely crushed (almond meal) is directly derivable from the parts. This culinary construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'almendra molida', French 'amande moulue'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily understand it.

Etymology

Ground almond gets its name from the plant's small, nutlike lumps that grow under the soil and taste a little like almonds. So the words ground (meaning 'under the soil') and almond (the nut) explain why the name means 'a plant with small edible, nutlike parts underground'.