walnut

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wal·nut /ˈwɔːlnʌt $ ˈwɒːl-/ noun  1  [countable]DF a nut that you can eat, shaped like a human brain 胡桃，核桃 coffee and walnut cake 咖啡核桃蛋糕 →5 see picture at 见图 nut12. [countable] (also walnut tree)HBP a tree that produces this type of nut 胡桃树3. [uncountable]TIDHF the wood from a walnut tree, often used to make furniture 胡桃木

Examples from the Corpus

walnut• I walked down the highway to Sabinal, eating black walnuts from the walnut tree.• Add the chopped prunes, apricots, apples, raisins and broken walnuts and cook gently until the fruits plump up.• The dressing-table mirror is made from walnut.• The surprise is the layer of ground walnuts, a la baklava, in the bottom of the cup.• Jaguar sells its leaping kitty hood ornaments mounted on a block made from the walnut that goes into its dashboards.• Victorian walnut writing box, £100; large quantity of books, £100.• It led to a five-foot-wide walnut staircase that swept up in a sumptuous curve to the floor above.• Place in a bowl with walnuts and sultanas.Origin walnut Old English wealhhnutu, from Wealh “Welsh person, foreigner” + hnutu “nut”; because it was brought into Britain from abroad, probably by the Romans

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walnut
wal‧nut /ˈwɔːlnʌt $ ˈwɒːl-/ noun
1. [countable] a nut that you can eat, shaped like a human brain:
    coffee and walnut cake
2. [countable] (also walnut tree) a tree that produces this type of nut
3. [uncountable] the wood from a walnut tree, often used to make furniture

wal·nutBrE /ˈwɔːlnʌt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈwɔːlnʌt/ 🔊 noun

[countable] the light brown nut of the walnut tree that has a rough surface and a hard round shell in two halves 核桃；胡桃 (also ˈwalnut tree) [countable] the tree on which walnuts grow 核桃树；胡桃树 [uncountable] the brown wood of the walnut tree, used in making furniture 核桃木；胡桃木