nut
- noun
- /nʌt/
- I've just got some froyo with nuts and some chocolate chips.
- tree nuts
- almond nut
- nuts including peanuts
OK, meat and vegetables, nuts, eggs in an unbroken shell.
- OK, meat and vegetables, nuts, eggs in an unbroken shell.
- Green leafy vegetables, nuts, fatty fish and fruits.
- Yes, this is just full of really nourishing nut and fruit oils.
- Fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, that kind of stuff.
- First step is a couple of small handfuls of nuts per day.
- Same with all the other nuts, same with sesame seed.
- Then you've got you've got your, your beans, your nuts, your seeds, all your legumes.
Examples
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It's got a huge can of mixed nuts.
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Deaths from nut allergies are rare but appear to be more common in children with asthma.
Academic text (2012) -
OK Ian, what kind of nut does your friend enjoy?
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So like all dried fruit and nuts, it looks very fancy.
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Yes, this is just full of really nourishing nut and fruit oils.
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Green leafy vegetables, nuts, fatty fish and fruits.
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I took it, thinking it was a macadamia nut, but when I crunched into it, it splintered.
Fiction book (1990) -
These are some good nuts, hummus, pita and veggies.
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She eats fish, she eats some nuts and spinach salad for dinner.
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You can enjoy a healthy snack of nuts and dried fruit.
Synonyms
A small seed that grows in a pod underground and is eaten as a snack
An oval hard seed people eat or press for oil
A smooth brown nut with a sweet part you can eat
A hard-shelled nut with a wrinkled two-part inside that you eat
A small round nut or the tree that makes it, often used in sweets and coffee
A hard round seed with a sweet, creamy taste often used in cooking and baking
A small green seed from a tree that you eat as a snack or in cooking
A large three-sided nut with white oily meat and a hard brown shell
A kidney-shaped nut roasted before eating and used as a snack or in cooking
A hard-shelled seed with an edible part inside, like an almond or walnut
A large round fruit with a hard shell, white flesh and liquid you can drink inside
A large nut from a palm that gives oil and has a hard shell carved like ivory
A large edible seed from a South American tree used for food or oil
An edible seed from some pine trees eaten as a snack or used in cooking
An edible seed or fruit from a tropical tree often eaten cooked, for example roasted
A seed from an oil palm tree that people use to make oil
A nut with a very thin shell that breaks easily
A very small hard seed from a flower or fruit
A small part of a plant that you can eat and use in cooking
A hickory tree that makes bitter thin-shelled nuts and the nut itself
Idioms
- Offensive
To release semen during sex and used jokingly to show extreme excitement
To use much more effort or help than needed to do a small task
- Informal
To use far more force or effort than needed for a small task
Compounds
- Indian
A seed chewed with betel leaves and lime to make you feel more awake, often in South and Southeast Asia
Two metal pieces, a bolt and a matching nut, that hold parts together by screwing
A large nut you can eat with a hard brown shell and creamy white inside from South America
- Specialized
A shrub that attaches to hemlock roots and has small green flowers and soft fruits
- Specialized
A large nut from a palm that gives oil and has a hard shell carved like ivory
A thick cooking oil from the nuts of a cohune palm that people also use to make soap
- Specialized
A bitter brown seed from a West African tree that contains caffeine and is used to flavor drinks
A fragrant black seed from the tonka bean tree used like vanilla in food and perfume
- Specialized
A hard brown nut from a South American palm used for carving and instead of ivory
A sweet moist loaf that has chopped dates and nuts, often eaten as a snack or dessert
A plant from Europe with small edible tubers that people eat and use to add flavor
- Indian
A seed from a palm tree chewed with betel leaves and lime in South and Southeast Asia
A medium-sized tree from southern Europe with a wide top that makes edible seeds like small almonds
A liquid from the nuts of a tropical tree that people use for cooking and for skin and hair
A tropical tree that produces large brown nuts containing caffeine used to make cola drinks
A bitter brown seed from a West African tree used to help people feel more awake and flavor cola
A small pine tree from Mexico and southern Texas with edible seeds and short needles
- UK
A large brown nut from an African tree that contains caffeine and gives cola flavor
- Specialized
A small metal piece with six flat sides that screws onto a bolt to hold things together
A South American palm tree with no visible trunk that produces hard white nuts used for carving
- Jargon
A strong metal part that holds a helicopter's rotor to its shaft and whose failure can cause a crash
A grass-like plant with small round edible underground tubers that often grows as a weed
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Etymology
Nut comes from an old English word that meant a 'hard seed' you can eat, so the picture to remember is a small seed inside a hard shell. So today nut still means a hard-shelled, edible seed.