walnut

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, walnote, from Old English walhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“Celt, Roman, foreigner”) (whence Walloon, Welsh) + *hnuts (whence nut). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhnota. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑlnət/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːlnʌt/
• Rhymes: -ʌt

Noun

walnut (usually uncountable, plural walnuts)

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

Related terms

• walshnut

Translations

Adjective

walnut (not comparable)

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

Translations

Derived terms

• ash-leaved walnut
• black walnut
• English walnut
• European walnut
• satin walnut
• Walnut Ridge
• white walnut

See also

• butternut
• hickory
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

Wikibooks

• walnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juglans on Wikispecies.Wikispecies