nut
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
Example
“There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.”
Other meanings
Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
A kind of
- seed
Kinds of nut
- mast
- palm nut
- edible nut
Word history
From Old English "hnutu".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “nut” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.