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black walnut

noun
  1. a tree, Juglans nigra, of North America, having pinnate leaves and dark-brown bark and bearing an edible nut covered by a thick green or brown husk.
  2. the nut of this tree.
  3. the wood of this tree, valued in furniture-making.
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Origin of black walnut

An Americanism dating back to 1605–15
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Examples from the Web for black walnut

Historical Examples of black walnut

  • White-walnut, or butter-nut, and black-walnut, are not so good as the English walnut.

    Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume X

    Various

  • But the children were not allowed to make use of them, so they languished in the black-walnut bureau.

  • On a black-walnut shelf between the windows lay a choice collection of meerschaum and brier-wood pipes.

    Miss Mehetabel's Son

    Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  • The heavy honesty of black-walnut depressed her after the gilded stucco of her mother's salon.

    On the Stairs

    Henry B. Fuller

  • The color rose in her cheeks and neck and up to her black-walnut hair till the red dress and the red face looked all of a flame.

    Aunt Crete's Emancipation

    Grace Livingston Hill

British Dictionary definitions for black walnut

black walnut

noun
  1. a North American walnut tree, Juglans nigra, with hard dark wood and edible oily nuts
  2. the valuable wood of this tree, used for cabinet work
  3. the nut of this tree
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Compare butternut (def. 1), butternut (def. 2), butternut (def. 3), butternut (def. 4)
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