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NUT/nʌt/

A nut is a hard fruit with a shell that you eat: a peanut, a walnut. Nuts is the usual plural; a bag of nuts; I am allergic to nuts. A seed is smaller and often inside fruit. Countable: a nut, nuts. Not not — different word.

Meaning

A hard fruit with a shell that you can eat.

Examples

• “I am allergic to nuts.”
• “Do not give nuts to very young children.”
• “She put nuts on the cake.”

Good to know

a nut / nuts; allergic to nuts. Contrast: seed. Types: peanut, walnut.

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