walnut
See also: Walnut
English
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Walnuts for sale.
![](Images/wiktionary/Whole_walnut_kernel_and_shell.jpg.webp)
The kernel of a walnut with the shell in the background.
Etymology
From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, walnote, 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”.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈwɑlnət/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɔːlnʌt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌt
Noun
walnut (countable and uncountable, plural walnuts)
- A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
- A nut of the walnut tree.
- Wood of the walnut tree.
- Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
- walnut:
Related terms
- walshnut
Translations
tree
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nut
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wood
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colour
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Adjective
walnut (not comparable)
- Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
Translations
colour
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Derived terms
- ash-leaved walnut
- black walnut
- English walnut
- European walnut
- satin walnut
- Walnut Ridge
- white walnut
See also
- butternut
- hickory
- Appendix:Colors
Further reading
Wikibooks
walnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Juglans on Wikispecies.Wikispecies