walnut

walnut

See also: Walnut

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

walnut (countable and uncountable, plural walnuts)

  2. A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
  4. A nut of the walnut tree.
  5. Wood of the walnut tree.
  6. Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
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Adjective

walnut (not comparable)

  1. Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick.‎[1], archived from the original on 11 August 2014:
      A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.

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