a North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
plant noun (plants and fungi)
black walnut trees
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Juglans nigra [species] | black hickory | black walnut | J. nigra [abbreviation, species]
a species of flowering tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, is native to eastern North America. It grows mostly in riparian zones, from southern Ontario, west to southeast South Dakota, south to Georgia, northern Florida and southwest to central ... (39 of 1853 words, 6 images)
a tall walnut tree native to eastern North America | its hard, heavy, dark-brown wood, used in making furniture, gunstocks, etc. | its edible, oily ... (23 of 29 words, 3 definitions, 1 image)
a North American walnut treewith hard dark wood and edible oily nuts | the valuable wood of this tree, used for cabinet work | the nut of this tree (27 of 332 words, 3 definitions, 2 usage examples)
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An eastern North American tree "(Juglans nigra") having dark brown wood and a deeply furrowed nut enclosed in a globose aromatic husk. | The wood of ... (25 of 51 words, 3 definitions)
a walnut of eastern North America with hard strong heavy dark brown wood and oily edible nuts ; also, its wood or nut (23 of 45 words)
a tree of North America, having pinnate leaves and dark-brown bark and bearing an edible nut covered by a thick green or brown husk. | the nut of this ... (28 of 44 words, 3 definitions)
tall tree, native to eastern North America, valued for its decorative wood. See walnut. (14 of 18 words, 3 images)
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A taxonomic genus within the family Juglandaceae -- the walnuts. (9 of 11 words)
the large wrinkled edible seed of a deciduous tree, consisting of two halves contained within a hard shell which is enclosed in a green fruit. | the ... (26 of 87 words, 2 definitions, pronunciation)
[countable] a tree that produces nuts and wood ; [countable] a nut you can eat that has a knobbly surface (=covered in small round lumps) inside a ... (27 of 64 words, pronunciation)
common name for some members of the Juglandaceae, a family of chiefly deciduous, resinous trees characterized by large and aromatic compound leaves. ... (22 of 57 words)
a nut with a slightly bitter taste and a series of folds in it and a hard shell, or (the expensive light brown wood from) the tree that produces these ... (30 of 38 words, pronunciations)
the hard black wood of a North American walnut tree. Use: veneers, cabinets. | the hard-shelled nut of a North American walnut tree | a walnut tree ... (25 of 66 words, 3 definitions)
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