pistachio

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  1. noun A deciduous tree (Pistacia vera) of central and western Asia, having pinnately compound leaves and dry, drupaceous, nutlike fruits.
  2. noun The nutlike fruit of this tree, having an edible, oily, green or yellow kernel.
  3. noun The flavor of these nuts.

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  • Setton International Foods announced it was also voluntarily recalling about 118,000 pounds of pistachio products, and more than a dozen other companies that got their nuts from the California plant have also recalled their pistachio products this week. —  GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
  • More than a dozen other companies that got their nuts from the California plant have recalled their pistachio products this week for fear of possible contamination. —  PE Angels Baseball
  • Social Life magazine party, where the Countess spurned a Rolling Rock because royalty dare not drink directly from bottles, Jill and Simon made up, and she didn't make fun of his pistachio-colored jacket. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Consumers nationwide are being warned to avoid pistachios and pistachio-containing products. —  NewsInferno
  • No pistachio-related illnesses have been reported. —  KDKA - Pittsburgh's Source for Breaking News, Weather and Sports
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  1. Italian pistacchio, from Latin pistacium, pistachio nut, from Greek pistakion, from pistakē, pistachio tree, perhaps from Middle Persian *pistak.

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  1. Formerly pistacho; from Spanish pistacho = French pistache = Pg.pistacha, pistacia = Italian pistacchio, pistacio = Dutch pistasje = German pistazie = Swedish Danish pistacie, from Latin pistacium, pistaceum, the pistachio-nut, pistacia, the pistachio-tree, from Greek πιστάκιον, in plural πιστἀκια, alsoβιστάκια, φιττάκια, ψιττάκια, the fruit of the pistachio-tree, itself called πιστάκη, = Arabic fistaq, fustuq = Hindustani pistah, from Persian pistā, the pistachio-nut.
 

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