English > edible nut: 1 sense > noun 1, food| Meaning | A hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell. |
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| Narrower | almond | oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree |
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| beechnut | small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees |
| brazil nut, brazil | three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell |
| bunya bunya | nut tasting like roasted chestnuts |
| butternut | oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family |
| cashew, cashew nut | kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted |
| chestnut | edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea |
| chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin | small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States |
| coconut, cocoanut | large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk |
| grugru nut | nut of Brazilian or West Indian palms |
| hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, cob | nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus |
| hickory nut | small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories |
| macadamia nut | nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat |
| peanut, earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut | pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds |
| pecan | Smooth brown oval nut of south central United States |
| pine nut, pignolia, pinon nut | edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America |
| pistachio, pistachio nut | nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel |
| quandong nut | edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit |
| souari nut | A large nutlike seed of a South American tree |
| walnut | nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell |
| Broader | nut | usually large hard-shelled seed |
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