edible nut

/ˌɛdəbəl nət/

Other forms: edible nuts

Definitions of edible nut

1. noun

   a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell
   types:

   bunya bunya

   nut tasting like roasted chestnuts; a staple food of Australian aborigines

   earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut

   pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms

   almond

   oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree

   quandong nut

   edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit

   beechnut

   small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees

   walnut

   a wrinkled, edible seed contained in a hard shell

   brazil, brazil nut

   three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell

   butternut

   oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family

   souari nut

   a large nutlike seed of a South American tree

   cashew, cashew nut

   kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted

   chestnut

   edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea

   chincapin, chinkapin, chinquapin

   small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut

   cob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut

   nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus

   cocoanut, coconut

   large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk

   grugru nut

   nut of Brazilian or West Indian palms

   hickory nut

   small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories

   macadamia nut

   nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat

   pecan

   smooth brown oval nut of south central United States

   pignolia, pine nut, pinon nut

   edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America

   pistachio, pistachio nut

   nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel

   Jordan almond

   an almond covered with a sugar coating that is hard and flavored and colored

   black walnut

   American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell

   English walnut

   nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively thin shell; widely used in cooking

   type of:

   nut

   usually large hard-shelled seed