EDIBLE NUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does edible nut mean?
• EDIBLE NUT (noun)
The noun EDIBLE NUT has 1 sense:
1. a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell
Familiarity information: EDIBLE NUT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EDIBLE NUT (noun)
Meaning:
A hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("edible nut" is a kind of...):
nut (usually large hard-shelled seed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edible nut"):
bunya bunya (nut tasting like roasted chestnuts; a staple food of Australian aborigines)
chincapin; chinkapin; chinquapin (small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut)
cob; cobnut; filbert; hazelnut (nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus)
cocoanut; coconut (large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk)
grugru nut (nut of Brazilian or West Indian palms)
hickory nut (small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories)
macadamia nut (nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat)
pecan (smooth brown oval nut of south central United States)
pignolia; pine nut; pinon nut (edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America)
chestnut (edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea)
cashew; cashew nut (kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted)
earthnut; goober; goober pea; groundnut; monkey nut; peanut (pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms)
almond (oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree)
quandong nut (edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit)
beechnut (small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees)
walnut (nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell)
brazil; brazil nut (three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell)
butternut (oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family)
souari nut (a large nutlike seed of a South American tree)
pistachio; pistachio nut (nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel)
