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walnut

Genus Juglans of trees of the family Juglandaceae, closely related to hickories. Walnuts have pinnately compound leaves and nuts enclosed in a thick leathery husk. Six species, including the black walnut J. nigra and the butternut J. cinerea, are native to the USA. About 15 other species occur in South America and Eurasia. The English walnut J. regia, originally from southeastern Europe and Asia, is cultivated widely for its nut crop.

Walnut

Town in Los Angeles County, southwest California; population (1990) 29,100. It is located 32 km/20 mi east of Los Angeles city centre. Mount San Antonio College (1946) is in this growing residential suburb.

Walnut

Small town in Bureau County, north-central Illinois; population (1990) 1,500. It is located 37 km/23 mi north of Lincoln. Author Don Marquis was born here in 1878.



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A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit.
Fables by Aesop View in context
The cowish, also, or biscuit root, about the size of a walnut, which they reduce to a very palatable flour; together with the jackap, aisish, quako, and others; which they cook by steaming them in the ground.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
They found the Princess Langwidere in her mirrored chamber, where she was admiring one of her handsomest heads--one with rich chestnut hair, dreamy walnut eyes and a shapely hickorynut nose.
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