walnut
- noun
- /ˈwɔːlnʌt/
- The baker included chopped walnuts in the cookie dough for added flavor.
- almonds and walnuts
You could probably break walnuts with this on a hard table.
- You could probably break walnuts with this on a hard table.
- Loads of natural Omega oils in my hemp kernels, walnuts and pumpkin seeds.
- And a good example of this is walnut seed oil.
- Sent Ives like hello hello apricot scrub, walnut scrub, same thing.
- But a walnut, a walnut in your oatmeal is really yummy.
- It's things like walnuts and pecans and amarinth and molay.
- This is the walnut grapefruit polishing scrub.
Examples
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Well, this was my mother's walnut Crescent recipe from my childhood.
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Rip open a plastic bag of mixed baby greens, throw in a few walnuts, some cherry tomatoes, and crumbled Gorgonzola.
Fiction book (2000) -
Well, who wants walnut milk?
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Now to be honest, according to the ingredients it's super fine walnut powder.
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You could probably break walnuts with this on a hard table.
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You know why English walnuts are good for you.
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You got a bunch of raw walnut halves and pieces.
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We drank sweet wine and ate walnuts, bananas, and other fruit under the light of candles.
Academic text (2003) -
He sold walnuts wholesale.
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To make a healthy snack, she tossed salad greens with walnuts and vinaigrette.
Synonyms
A large hard seed with a shell that you can eat
A hard-shelled seed with an edible part inside, like an almond or walnut
Compounds
A medium-sized tree from California with fragrant leaves and edible nuts
A tree from Europe and Asia that produces large edible nuts and hard attractive wood
A nut with a wrinkled two-part seed inside a hard thin shell used in cooking and baking
A tree from Europe and Asia that produces large edible nuts and wood used for furniture
- Specialized
A group of trees that includes walnuts, pecans, and hickories and makes edible nuts
- Specialized
A disease of walnut trees that makes dark, sunken spots on leaves, shoots, and nuts
- US
A North American tree with light brown wood, edible nuts, and shells used for dye
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Etymology
Walnut comes from old English parts wealh and hnutu, which mean 'foreign' and 'nut'. People once called it a 'foreign nut' because the edible nut arrived from other lands, so walnut now means the nut we eat.