Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A leading genus of the Juglandeæ, or walnut family.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The walnut and similar trees of the genus Juglans

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the Juglandaceae

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin iūglāns.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word juglans.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.