edible nut

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edible nut - a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shellbunya bunya - nut tasting like roasted chestnuts; a staple food of Australian aboriginesgoober, goober pea, monkey nut, groundnut, earthnut, peanut - pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British termsalmond - oval-shaped edible seed of the almond treequandong nut - edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruitbeechnut - small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech treeswalnut - nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shellbrazil, brazil nut - three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shellbutternut - oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut familysouari nut - a large nutlike seed of a South American treecashew nut, cashew - kidney-shaped nut edible only when roastedchestnut - edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castaneachincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin - small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnutcob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut - nut of any of several trees of the genus Coryluscocoanut, coconut - large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milkgrugru nut - nut of Brazilian or West Indian palmshickory nut - small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickoriesmacadamia nut - nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meatpecan - smooth brown oval nut of south central United Statespignolia, pine nut, pinon nut - edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North Americapistachio nut, pistachio - nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernelnut - usually large hard-shelled seed