walnut

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

   A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.

2. 2
   noun

   nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell

3. 3
   noun

   any of various trees of the genus Juglans

4. 4
   noun

   hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees

5. 5
   noun

   A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.

6. 6
   noun

   A nut of the walnut tree.

7. 7
   noun

   Wood of the walnut tree.

8. 8
   noun

   Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

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”.