grugru nut
- noun
- Specialized
:
nuez grugru
- She tasted a grugru nut for the first time during her trip to Brazil.
Examples
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After the harvest, they sold bags of grugru nuts at the market.
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The grugru nut is often gathered and eaten by locals in the Caribbean.
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The grugru nut is a delicacy in Brazil.
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Many people enjoy eating grugru nuts as snacks.
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During my visit to the Caribbean, I sampled a delicious grugru nut from a local vendor.
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She bought a bag of roasted grugru nuts to enjoy as a healthy snack on the beach.
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The grugru nut is commonly used in traditional Brazilian cuisine for its rich flavor.
Synonyms
A hard-shelled palm nut that gives oil and has an inside you can eat
A seed from an oil palm tree that people use to make oil
A seed from a palm tree chewed with betel leaves and lime in South and Southeast Asia
An oily seed from the wild mango tree that people eat or press for oil
A hard brown nut from a South American palm used for carving and instead of ivory
A hard white seed from a South American palm used to make buttons and small objects
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines a plant name 'grugru' (a palm tree) with 'nut' (an edible seed), and such noun–noun compounds routinely denote the seed/fruit of the named plant. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and the given definition is directly derivable from the constituents, so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand it.
Etymology
Grugru nut comes from the small, hard seeds of certain palm trees in Brazil and the Caribbean that people gather and eat. One popular story says the word grugru copies the little rattling sound the seeds make in their fruit, so the name stuck to this 'edible nut'.
