nut bar
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2.5
- noun
- /nʌt bɑr/
:
barra de nuez
- Recipes like Fruit and Nut Bars or Coconut Flavored Chocolate actually make me feel like I am eating something that can't possibly be good for me.
Examples
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They make fruit and nut bars that are both healthy and tasty, two of our favorite things.
Blog text (30) -
The nuttiest of all nut bars.
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Where they put the nut bars?
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Where they put the nut bars?
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So then I bought some chocolate nut bars... and I went outside of his office and I waited the whole afternoon.
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I also send in the highest protein granola/nut bars I can find for the granola/cereal bar category.
Blog text (21) -
I found her sitting at her desk with her feet up on an open drawer, eating a chocolate-nut bar and reading a fat paperback.
Fiction book (1995) -
When I was hungry, I ate snacks from the snack machine, mostly cakes, chips, and chocolate-nut bars.
Fiction book (2002) -
I like the fruit and nut bars—apricot and macadamia are the best—but anything with coconut tickles my fancy!
Blog text (9) -
I enjoyed a delicious nut bar that was filled with almonds and honey after my workout.
Synonyms
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1.0
A sweet made of chocolate or sugar that you eat as a snack
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1.0
A solid sweet made from cocoa, shaped like a bar to eat as a snack
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1.5
A small baked snack made from oats, nuts, and honey, often with dried fruit
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1.2
A baked sweet snack with chopped fruit cut into bars
A sweet baked slice with apricot jam or fruit
A sweet snack made from peanuts and syrup, shaped like a bar
A sweet bar made of soft, chewy sugar and nuts often covered in chocolate
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a 'nut bar' is literally a bar made from nuts (a snack), so a learner who knows 'nut' and 'bar' can infer this product sense. This noun+noun compound follows common cross-linguistic packaging/snack naming patterns, making its meaning predictable for B1 learners.
Etymology
Nut bar comes from the clear image of nut pieces pressed together into a long bar and held by sugar or chocolate. That's why nut bar means a small 'sweet snack' made of nuts shaped and cut into a bar.