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)

Sense 1

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"):

chestnut (edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea)

pistachio; pistachio nut (nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel)

pignolia; pine nut; pinon nut (edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America)

pecan (smooth brown oval nut of south central United States)

macadamia nut (nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat)

hickory nut (small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories)

grugru nut (nut of Brazilian or West Indian palms)

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)

cob; cobnut; filbert; hazelnut (nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus)

chincapin; chinkapin; chinquapin (small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut)

bunya bunya (nut tasting like roasted chestnuts; a staple food of Australian aborigines)

cashew; cashew nut (kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted)

souari nut (a large nutlike seed of a South American tree)

butternut (oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family)

brazil; brazil nut (three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell)

walnut (nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell)

beechnut (small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees)

quandong nut (edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit)

almond (oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree)

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)