Words / B2

WORLN-ut/ˈwɔːlnʌt/

A walnut is a wrinkled edible nut, or the tree that produces it: a walnut; walnut shell; walnut wood is a secondary product sense. Almond and hazelnut are other tree nuts; peanut is a groundnut. Name walnut in the allergy table, then the sample. Mix-up: walnut vs wall nut as two words; walnut vs the wood stain only — use wood only if the source names timber; do not write walnut for a peanut.

Meaning

A wrinkled edible nut, or the tree that produces it.

Examples

• “Name walnut in the allergy table, then the sample, not a baking slogan.”
• “Walnut timber featured in the DT spec, which is the wood sense — still name the finish if given.”

Good to know

a walnut; walnut shell / tree; walnut (wood) only if timber is named. Contrast: peanut / almond. Trap: a generic “nut” with no species. Food tech, biology, and DT. The wrinkled nut — name it in the allergy or the timber spec.

Near in meaning

tree nut, Juglans, walnut tree

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