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# almond

«almond» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **almond tree; almond blossom** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

almond tree; almond blossom

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Here it means the almond tree or its flower, not the nut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/almond/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "almond" means the nut you eat. In these sentences it means the tree or its blossoms, so the old sense is used.

### examples

- And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof. (Torah EXO.25.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/almond/#x1)
- "I flew beneath green palm-trees, and amidst the blooming almond-trees," sang the canary. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/almond/#x2)
- And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof; (Torah EXO.37.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/almond/#x3)

### primary record

almond

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 16 (Torah 7, tales 9, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.8 (Torah alone 16.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.734/)
- [And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1143/)
- [Apples, almonds, strawberries and coffee all need pollinators.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «almond» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/A/almond/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.