pinon nut
- noun
- /ˈpɪn.jɒn nʌt/
- US
:
piñón
- In the fall, many families gather pinon nuts as a seasonal tradition.
Examples
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The chef added pinon nuts to the salad for a delicious crunch.
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They also offered the Spaniards bowls of mescal with pinon nuts.
Academic text (1999) -
Native Americans, who sell the pinon nuts, are also deprived of a source of income.
Academic text (2001) -
They killed the people they caught there, took the horses, burned up all the corn, pinon nuts, and blankets, and gathered up the children to sell them in Santa Fe.
Fiction book (1993) -
Lost travelers and lost pinon nut gatherers have been saved by sighting a rock formation they recognize only because they once heard a hunting story describing this rock formation (32).
Academic text (1999) -
Pai families from different regional bands occasionally coalesced to harvest cactus fruits or pinon nuts (Dobyns and Euler 1970:25).
Academic text (1998) -
"These included cotton textiles, cornmeal, pinon nuts, and 'birds of the country.' After the natives brought Tovar some turquoise, they permitted him 'freely to visit, buy, sell, and barter with them.'
Academic text (1991) -
They'd hunted deer and antelope on the mesa, foraged pinon nuts on the slopes, and sheltered themselves in winter in the gorge.
Fiction book (1990) -
He enjoyed snacking on roasted pinon nuts while hiking in the mountains.
Synonyms
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1.0
A large hard seed with a shell that you can eat
8
2.3
An edible seed from some pine trees used in cooking and baking
1
7.7
A small pine tree with short needles that makes edible seeds
A small edible seed from a pine tree used in cooking
Surface Forms
Morphology
pinon + nut
The noun-noun compound follows a regular compositional pattern (modifier + nut) so its meaning is literally 'the nut/seed of the pinon (a particular pine)'; if a learner knows the word 'pinon' as a type of pine, the overall meaning is directly derivable. The provided data shows 'pinon' is a rare/regional lexical item (not found in the dictionary), so learners who do not know that constituent will fail to understand, but transparency given known constituents remains high.
Etymology
Pinon nut comes from small pines that make tasty seeds. People cracked open the pine cones to take the little pinon nuts and often roasted them as a snack, so the phrase now means the edible 'seed' of those trees.