From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Food, Plantswalnutwal‧nut /ˈwɔːlnʌt $ ˈwɒːl-/ noun1
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[countable]DF a nut that you can eat, shaped like a human braincoffee and walnut cake2[countable] (also walnut tree)HBP a tree that produces this type of nut3[uncountable]TIDHF the wood from a walnut tree, often used to make furnitureExamples from the Corpuswalnut• I walked down the highway to Sabinal, eating black walnuts from the walnut tree.• Add the choppedprunes, apricots, apples, raisins and broken walnuts and cook gently until the fruits plump up.• The dressing-table mirror is made from walnut.• The surprise is the layer of ground walnuts, a labaklava, in the bottom of the cup.• Jaguar sells its leapingkittyhoodornamentsmounted on a block made from the walnut that goes into its dashboards.• Victorianwalnut writing box, 100ドル; large quantity of books, 100ドル.• It led to a five-foot-wide walnutstaircase that swept up in a sumptuouscurve to the floorabove.• Place in a bowl with walnuts and sultanas.OriginwalnutOld Englishwealhhnutu, from Wealh"Welsh person, foreigner" + hnutu"nut"; because it was brought into Britain from abroad, probably by the Romans