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/ˈɪŋglɪʃ wˈɔlnˌət/ Listen

English walnut

noun

Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated. Synonyms: Circassian walnut, English walnut tree, Juglans regia, Persian walnut.

Nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively thin shell; widely used in cooking.

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... and of two parts, the large brain (cerebrum), and the little brain (cerebellum). These are composed of a white and gray substance, which in the large brain is so folded and wrinkled that it looks like the meat of an English walnut; in the little brain it is so arranged that it resembles a tree, and is called arbor vitae, tree of life. The mind does its thinking through the large brain, and controls its muscles through the ...

— Object Lessons on the Human Body - A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City • Sarah F. Buckelew and Margaret W. Lewis

... summit of the curve, employed in draining a mine In California, the force of the current was such as to carry through the tube great quantities of sand and coarse gravel, some of the grains of which were as large as an English walnut. —Raymond, Mining Statistics, 1870, p. 602.] The facts which I have adduced may aid us in forming an idea of the origin and mode of transportation of the prodigious deposits at the mouth of great rivers like the Mississippi, the Nile, the Ganges, and the ...

— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh

Words linked to "English walnut" : walnut tree, genus Juglans, Juglans, Persian walnut, English walnut tree, walnut, walnut oil