walnut

English Online Dictionary. What means walnut‎? What does walnut mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, 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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːlnʌt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔlnət/, /ˈwɔlˌnʌt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑlnət/, /ˈwɑlˌnʌt/
• Hyphenation: wal‧nut

Noun

walnut (countable and uncountable, plural walnuts)

2. A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
4. A nut of the walnut tree.
5. Wood of the walnut tree.
6. Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Derived terms

Related terms

• walshnut

Translations

Adjective

walnut (not comparable)

1. Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Translations

See also

• butternut
• hickory
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

Wikibooks

• “walnut”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• walnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juglans on Wikispecies.Wikispecies