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pistachio

pistachio

11 3.9
A small pale green nut people eat, often roasted or used in sweets
  • noun
  • /pɪˈstæʃioʊ/
translation icon : pistacho
  • For dessert, I ordered a slice of pistachio cake, which was rich and creamy.
  • pistachio nuts
  • pistachio ice cream
  • pistachio and chocolate

Y like chunks of pistachio plus the pistachio flavor.

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Examples

  • Why order a plate of pistachio ice cream if you hate pistachio ice cream?

    Blog text (7)

  • Two scoops of pistachio ice cream, some bananas on top.

    Blue in the Face (1995)

  • But this pistachio, it made my heart sing the second I saw it.

  • You give her a piece of pistachio cake!

    Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

  • "We brought pistachio nuts from Acre too."

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Eight different kinds of wine by the glass, pistachio nuts out of the shell.

    For Love or Money (1993)

  • We passed the wonderful pistachio farm and they had pistachios.

  • It's made out of pistachios and sugar and a little bit of stabilizer.

  • I'm going to try the pistachio first because that's the one I was craving the most.

  • This particular kind of Dove body wash, it's the purely pampering pistachio cream with Magnolia.

Synonyms

pistachio nut
vspistachio
1 2.8

A small green seed from a tree that you eat as a snack or in cooking

is the shorter form used without the additional noun

Compounds

pistachio nut
1 2.8

A small green seed from a tree that you eat as a snack or in cooking

pistachio tree
3.9

A small tree that produces hard-shelled nuts people eat

pistachio green
4.2

A pale yellow-green color like a pistachio nut

How Big

walnut
54 1.0
hazelnut
25 1.0
pistachio
11 3.9

Surface Forms

pistachio singular
pistachios plural

Etymology

Pistachio comes from a Middle Eastern name for the food and reached English through Greek pistakion and Italian pistacchio. So pistachio still means the small green edible 'nut' we eat.