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# walnut

«walnut» in Mova's school dictionary: **a nut with a wrinkly brown shell and a wrinkly seed…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a walnut, walnuts; walnut — the wood, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A walnut is a nut with a wrinkly brown shell and a wrinkly seed inside that looks a bit like a little brain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#m1)

2) A walnut is the tree that grows these nuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#m2)

3) Walnut is the hard, dark brown wood of this tree, used to make furniture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In cooking (walnut cake, banana bread); in science (seeds, trees); in health and safety, nut allergies matter; in furniture and stories, a walnut table or desk.

### examples

- I cracked the walnut with a nutcracker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#x1)
- The inside of a walnut looks like a tiny brain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#x2)
- Grandad has an old walnut tree in his garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#x3)
- Mum put walnuts in the banana bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#x4)
- The desk is made of polished walnut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#x5)
- Some children are allergic to walnuts, so check the label. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#x6)
- A Walnut-tree, which grew by the roadside, bore every year a plentiful crop of nuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/walnut/#x7)

### note

Countable for nuts and trees, uncountable for the wood. Safety: nut allergies can be very dangerous; never share nut snacks at school without asking.

### In the corpora

- [Crows in Japan drop walnuts at traffic lights for cars to crack, and crows can remember a human face for years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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