edible nut

Noun
  1. A hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell (synset 107753057)
    is a type of: nut - usually large hard-shelled seed
    subtypes:
    • bunya bunya - nut tasting like roasted chestnuts; a staple food of Australian aborigines
    • earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut - pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
    • almond - oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree
    • quandong nut - edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit
    • beechnut - small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees
    • walnut - nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell
    • brazil, brazil nut - three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell
    • butternut - oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
    • souari nut - a large nutlike seed of a South American tree
    • cashew, cashew nut - kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted
    • chestnut - edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea
    • chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin - small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut
    • cob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut - nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
    • cocoanut, coconut - large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
    • grugru nut - nut of Brazilian or West Indian palms
    • hickory nut - small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories
    • macadamia nut - nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat
    • pecan - smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
    • pignolia, pine nut, pinon nut - edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America
    • pistachio, pistachio nut - nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel

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