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noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- (rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
- (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. A state of being zesty.
- General vibrance of flavour.
- The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
- (slang, LGBTQ, derogatory) State of being a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual.
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- a tart spicy quality
verb
noun
- The nutlike tuber of such a plant, especially peanuts.
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).
- Any similar plant having underground tubers.
- A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
- a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
- nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
noun
- A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
- A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
- A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
- wood of a pecan tree
- tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
- smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
noun
- nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell
- A nut of the walnut tree.
- any of various trees of the genus Juglans
- hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling
- A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
- Wood of the walnut tree.
- Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
adj
noun
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
- (mathematics, category theory, of a morphism f:X→Y in a category with zero morphisms) The equalizer of f and the zero morphism from X to Y, denoted operatorname kerf.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- (botany) A single seed of grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- (programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, of a linear transformation f:M→N between modules or vector spaces) The set of elements of M which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of N.
- (mathematics, set theory, of a function f) The set of pairs of elements in the domain of f which are mapped to the same value; the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y).
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group homomorphism f:G→H between groups) The set of elements of G which are mapped to the identity of H (usually written as 0 in an additive group and as 1 in a multiplicative group).
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (mathematics, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism f:R→S between rings) The set of elements of R which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of S.
- (mathematics, category theory) The source of operatorname kerf, denoted operatorname Kerf.
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
- a single whole grain of a cereal
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
verb
noun
- The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
- (topology) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
- An artillery bombardment.
- (uncountable) Grain from which the husk has been removed.
- Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
verb
noun
- A nut or almond with a double kernel, as used to set a philopena.
- A game in which a person, on finding a double-kernelled almond or nut, may offer the second kernel to another person and demand a playful forfeit from that person to be paid on their next meeting. The forfeit may simply be to exchange the greeting "Good-day, Philopena" or it may be more elaborate. Philopenas were often played as a form of flirtation.
- The occasion on which a philopena is forfeited; the forfeit paid.
noun
- American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell
- The nuts of the aforementioned tree.
- North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
- Juglans nigra, a tree native to eastern North America.
- Synonym of Queensland walnut (“Endiandra palmerstonii”).
- The wood of the aforementioned species.
noun
- oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
- The nut of this walnut tree.
- North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
- A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.
- (informal outside South Africa) Butternut squash.
- The souari nut.
- A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.
- The wood or bark of this walnut tree.
noun
- The large nutlike seed of these trees.
- Any of several tree species of genus Aesculus, especially Aesculus hippocastanum, common in temperate northern hemisphere.
- the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut
- tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
noun
- the small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it
- a pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar
- (chemistry) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing four fused benzene rings; first isolated from coal tar
- (botany) Alternative form of pyrena.
noun
- The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
- (slang) A phony.
- (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
verb
- (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
- (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
- (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
- (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
- (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
- remove from the shell
- remove the shucks from
noun
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
- any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
- a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts
- Synonym of peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
- An underground tuber of a plant of the genus Tuber.
- A tuber belonging to the species Conopodium majus (syns. Bunium flexuosum, Conopodium denudatum), Bunium bulbocastanum (syn. Carum bulbocastanum), or Apios americana (syn. Apios tuberosa).
- A dwarf ginseng: Panax trifolius.
noun
verb
noun
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- a young child who is small for their age
- widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
- underground pod of the peanut vine
- (in the plural) See peanuts (“very small amount”).
- A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
- (US) Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
adj
verb
noun
- dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut
- the frame or body of ship
- persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry
- (mathematics, geometry, of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
- The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
- Any covering.
- The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
verb
noun
- small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut
- shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
- shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States
- Quercus muehlenbergii, a tree whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.
- Chinese chinkapin (Castanea henryi)
- A water chinquapin, an aquatic plant of species Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
- Any in the genus Chrysolepis of trees and shrubs.
- Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
- Ozark chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis)
- A redear sunfish, a freshwater fish of the southeastern US (Lepomis microlophus).
- Any in the genus Castanopsis of trees.
noun
- A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
- A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- A heavy fighting club.
- Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
- An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
- An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
- A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
- A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
- An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
- an official who carries a mace of office
- spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
- a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
verb
noun
noun
- Its egg-shaped, velvety fruit, having a thin layer of edible flesh surrounding a highly nutritious nut.
- A large, spreading tree (Schinziophyton rautanenii) of the family Euphorbiaceae, found on wooded hills and among sand dunes, with distinctive hand-shaped leaves, whose pale yellow wood resembles balsa.
noun
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
- the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
- (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- (slang) A meathead.
- (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- (slang, vulgar) A penis.
- (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something.
noun
noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- (rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.
- (by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto. A state of being zesty.
- General vibrance of flavour.
- The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.
- (slang, LGBTQ, derogatory) State of being a flamboyant or effeminate homosexual.
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- a tart spicy quality
verb
noun
- The nutlike tuber of such a plant, especially peanuts.
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).
- Any similar plant having underground tubers.
- A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
- a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
- nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
noun
- A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
- A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
- A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
- wood of a pecan tree
- tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
- smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
noun
- nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell
- A nut of the walnut tree.
- any of various trees of the genus Juglans
- hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling
- A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
- Wood of the walnut tree.
- Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.
adj
noun
- (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
- (mathematics, category theory, of a morphism f:X→Y in a category with zero morphisms) The equalizer of f and the zero morphism from X to Y, denoted operatorname kerf.
- (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
- (botany) A single seed of grain, especially of corn or wheat.
- (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
- (slang) The human clitoris.
- (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
- (programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
- A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
- (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
- (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
- (mathematics, linear algebra, of a linear transformation f:M→N between modules or vector spaces) The set of elements of M which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of N.
- (mathematics, set theory, of a function f) The set of pairs of elements in the domain of f which are mapped to the same value; the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y).
- (mathematics, group theory, of a group homomorphism f:G→H between groups) The set of elements of G which are mapped to the identity of H (usually written as 0 in an additive group and as 1 in a multiplicative group).
- (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
- (mathematics, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism f:R→S between rings) The set of elements of R which are mapped to the additive identity 0 of S.
- (mathematics, category theory) The source of operatorname kerf, denoted operatorname Kerf.
- The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
- a single whole grain of a cereal
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
verb
noun
- The removal of the shell from a nut, pea etc.
- (topology) An ordering of the facets of a boundary complex such that the intersection of each facet (other than the first) with the union of all preceding facets is homeomorphic to a ball or sphere. See Shelling (topology)
- An artillery bombardment.
- (uncountable) Grain from which the husk has been removed.
- Shallow, irregular cracks that appear on the surface of a coating such as plaster or mortar.
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
verb
noun
- A nut or almond with a double kernel, as used to set a philopena.
- A game in which a person, on finding a double-kernelled almond or nut, may offer the second kernel to another person and demand a playful forfeit from that person to be paid on their next meeting. The forfeit may simply be to exchange the greeting "Good-day, Philopena" or it may be more elaborate. Philopenas were often played as a form of flirtation.
- The occasion on which a philopena is forfeited; the forfeit paid.
noun
- American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell
- The nuts of the aforementioned tree.
- North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
- Juglans nigra, a tree native to eastern North America.
- Synonym of Queensland walnut (“Endiandra palmerstonii”).
- The wood of the aforementioned species.
noun
- oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
- The nut of this walnut tree.
- North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
- A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.
- (informal outside South Africa) Butternut squash.
- The souari nut.
- A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.
- The wood or bark of this walnut tree.
noun
- The large nutlike seed of these trees.
- Any of several tree species of genus Aesculus, especially Aesculus hippocastanum, common in temperate northern hemisphere.
- the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut
- tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds
noun
- the small hard nutlet of a drupe or drupelet; the seed and the hard endocarp that surrounds it
- a pale yellow crystalline hydrocarbon C16H10 extracted from coal tar
- (chemistry) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon containing four fused benzene rings; first isolated from coal tar
- (botany) Alternative form of pyrena.
noun
- The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
- (slang) A phony.
- (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
verb
- (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
- (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
- (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
- (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
- (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
- remove from the shell
- remove the shucks from
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- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
- any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
- a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts
- Synonym of peanut (Arachis hypogaea).
- An underground tuber of a plant of the genus Tuber.
- A tuber belonging to the species Conopodium majus (syns. Bunium flexuosum, Conopodium denudatum), Bunium bulbocastanum (syn. Carum bulbocastanum), or Apios americana (syn. Apios tuberosa).
- A dwarf ginseng: Panax trifolius.
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- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
- a young child who is small for their age
- widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
- underground pod of the peanut vine
- (in the plural) See peanuts (“very small amount”).
- A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
- (US) Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
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- dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut
- the frame or body of ship
- persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry
- (mathematics, geometry, of a set A) The smallest set that possesses a particular property (such as convexity) and contains every point of A; slightly more formally, the intersection of all sets which possess the specified property and of which A is a subset.
- The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
- Any covering.
- The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
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- small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut
- shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts
- shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States
- Quercus muehlenbergii, a tree whose leaves resemble those of chestnut-genus chinquapins.
- Chinese chinkapin (Castanea henryi)
- A water chinquapin, an aquatic plant of species Nelumbo lutea, American lotus.
- Any in the genus Chrysolepis of trees and shrubs.
- Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila)
- Ozark chinkapin (Castanea ozarkensis)
- A redear sunfish, a freshwater fish of the southeastern US (Lepomis microlophus).
- Any in the genus Castanopsis of trees.
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- A spice obtained from the outer layer of the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg.
- A ceremonial form of this weapon.
- A heavy fighting club.
- Tear gas or pepper spray, especially for personal use.
- An old weight of 57.98 grains, approximately 3.8 grams.
- An old money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael.
- A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
- A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
- An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
- an official who carries a mace of office
- spice made from the dried fleshy covering of the nutmeg seed
- a ceremonial staff carried as a symbol of office or authority
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- Its egg-shaped, velvety fruit, having a thin layer of edible flesh surrounding a highly nutritious nut.
- A large, spreading tree (Schinziophyton rautanenii) of the family Euphorbiaceae, found on wooded hills and among sand dunes, with distinctive hand-shaped leaves, whose pale yellow wood resembles balsa.
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- the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
- the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (uncountable) The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).
- (sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
- (Australian Aboriginal) A totem, or (by metonymy) a clan or clansman which uses it.
- (slang) A meathead.
- (uncountable) Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
- (slang, vulgar) A penis.
- (countable) A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
- (colloquial) The best or most substantial part of something.
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Nessuna parola corrispondente trovata. Prova una descrizione più ampia.