Topic: FOOD
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| Language: | Old English |
| Origin: | wealhhnutu, from Wealh 'Welsh person, foreigner' + hnutu 'nut'; because it was brought into Britain from abroad, probably by the Romans |
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wal‧nut
1 [countable]DF a nut that you can eat, shaped like a human brain : 
coffee and walnut cake
coffee and walnut cake2 [countable] also walnut treeHBP a tree that produces this type of nut
3 [uncountable]TI the wood from a walnut tree, often used to make furniture
