Walnut

//ˈwɔːlnʌt// adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell wordnet
  3. 3
    A nut of the walnut tree. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    any of various trees of the genus Juglans wordnet
  5. 5
    Wood of the walnut tree. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling wordnet
  2. 7
    Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood. countable, uncountable
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Los Angeles County, California.
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Lumpkin County, Georgia, named for walnut trees.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A township and village therein, in Bureau County, Illinois.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Marshall County, Indiana.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Crawford County, Kansas, named after Little Walnut Creek.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Tippah County, Mississippi.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, named after Walnut Creek.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Knox County, Nebraska, named for walnut trees.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Madison County, North Carolina, named after the Walnut Mountains.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A number of other townships, listed under Walnut Township.

Synonyms

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beigebrownbrunetchocolatedrabdun

Example

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"Alex names objects, like "walnut," "paper" and "corn"."

Etymology

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.

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