fistinut
English
Etymology
Compare Turkish fıstık / فستق. See pistachio.
Noun
fistinut (plural fistinuts)
- (obsolete, rare) A pistachio nut.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- 1930, Guide-book for the Excursion of the Second International Congress of Soil Science, volume 1, Moscow: Organizing Committee of the Second International Congress of Soil Science, Public Office of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, page 33:
- The Pistacia mutica (fistinut tree), Cercis siliquastrum, Vitex agnus and othr[sic] Mediterranian[sic] species of trees are characteristic for the Southern coast of the Crimea, from the Cape Aya to Kisiltash.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fistinut in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)