Wal·nut n. Bot. The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.
Note: ☞ In some parts of America, especially in New England, the name walnut is given to several species of hickory (Carya), and their fruit.
Ash-leaved walnut, a tree (Juglans fraxinifolia), native in Transcaucasia.
Black walnut, a North American tree (Juglans nigra) valuable for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled, and nearly globular.
English walnut, or European walnut, a tree (Juglans regia), native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also called Madeira nuts.
Walnut brown, a deep warm brown color, like that of the heartwood of the black walnut.
Walnut oil, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in cooking, making soap, etc.
White walnut, a North American tree (Juglans cinerea), bearing long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called butternuts. See Butternut.
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Eng·lish a. Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
English bond Arch. See 1st Bond, n., 8.
English breakfast tea. See Congou.
English horn. Mus. See Corno Inglese.
English walnut. Bot. See under Walnut.
English walnut
n 1: Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard
richly figured wood; widely cultivated [syn: English
walnut tree, Circassian walnut, Persian walnut, Juglans
regia]
2: nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively
thin shell; widely used in cooking