WALNUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does walnut mean? 

• WALNUT (noun)
  The noun WALNUT has 3 senses:

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

2. hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling

3. any of various trees of the genus Juglans

  Familiarity information: WALNUT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALNUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("walnut" is a kind of...):

edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "walnut"):

black walnut (American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell)

English walnut (nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively thin shell; widely used in cooking)

Holonyms ("walnut" is a part of...):

walnut; walnut tree (any of various trees of the genus Juglans)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("walnut" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("walnut" is a substance of...):

walnut; walnut tree (any of various trees of the genus Juglans)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of various trees of the genus Juglans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

walnut; walnut tree

Hypernyms ("walnut" is a kind of...):

nut tree (tree bearing edible nuts)

Meronyms (parts of "walnut"):

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

Meronyms (substance of "walnut"):

walnut (hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "walnut"):

California black walnut; Juglans californica (medium-sized tree with somewhat aromatic compound leaves and edible nuts)

butternut; butternut tree; Juglans cinerea; white walnut (North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye)

black hickory; black walnut; black walnut tree; Juglans nigra (North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut)

Circassian walnut; English walnut; English walnut tree; Juglans regia; Persian walnut (Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated)

Holonyms ("walnut" is a member of...):

genus Juglans; Juglans (type genus of the Juglandaceae)

 Context examples 

The old walnut trees are all come down to make room for it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Did you think you could match cunning with me—you with your walnut of a brain?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a study of walnuts, the team found an even greater discrepancy between what is reported on the label and the ME value.

(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Also, after looking at individual nut consumption, eating walnuts one or more times per week was associated with a 19 percent lower risk of cardiovascular disease and 21 percent lower risk of coronary heart disease.

(Eating Regular Variety of Nuts Associated with Lower Risk of Heart Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

At the end of fifteen minutes, the carriage swung in through a stone gateway and on between a double row of arched and interlacing walnut trees.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Researchers say the study “included all kinds of tree nuts” like hazelnuts, walnuts and peanuts, which are legumes.

(Daily Handful of Nuts Reduces Disease Risk, VOA)

In adults, the foods that most often trigger allergic reactions include fish, shellfish, peanuts, and tree nuts, such as walnuts.

(Food Allergy, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

I could see clearly a room with a sanded floor, clean scoured; a dresser of walnut, with pewter plates ranged in rows, reflecting the redness and radiance of a glowing peat-fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For example, an ultra-processed breakfast might consist of a bagel with cream cheese and turkey bacon, while the unprocessed breakfast was oatmeal with bananas, walnuts, and skim milk.

(Heavily processed foods cause overeating and weight gain, National Institutes of Health)

Merely telling him that I should expect from him what I always had expected, and had never yet been disappointed in, I opened the door upon him, as if he had been a great walnut put there to be cracked, and went out of the house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)