walnut

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  1. noun Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Juglans, having pinnately compound leaves and a round, sticky outer fruit wall that encloses a nutlike stone with an edible seed.
  2. noun The stone or the ridged or corrugated seed of such a tree.
  3. noun The hard, dark brown wood of any of these trees, used for gunstocks and in cabinetwork.

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  1. Middle English walnot, from Old English wealhhnutu : wealh, Celt, foreigner + hnutu, nut.

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  1. Formerly also wallnut, wallnutte; from Middle English walnot, walnote, from Anglo-Saxon *wealh hnutu, walhhnutu (= Middle Dutch walnote, Dutch walnoot = German walnuss = Icelandic valhnot = Swedish valnöt = Danish valnöd), literally ‘foreign nut’ (so called with reference to Italy and France, whence the nut was first brought to the Germans and English), from wealh, foreign (see Welsh), + huutu, nut. Cf. welshnut.
 

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/ˈwɔlnət/
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