Definition of Pine nut

1. Noun. Edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America.

Exact synonyms: Pignolia, Pinon Nut
Generic synonyms: Edible Nut
Group relationships: Nut Pine, European Nut Pine, Pinus Pinea, Stone Pine, Umbrella Pine

Definition of Pine nut

1. Noun. The edible seed of any of several species of evergreen pine, especially ''Pinus pinea'', ''Pinus cembra'' and ''Pinus cembroides''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pine Nut

pine cones
pine family
pine fern
pine finch
pine green
pine grosbeak
pine hyacinth
pine knot
pine leaf aphid
pine lily
pine lizard
pine marten
pine martens
pine mouse
pine needle
pine nut (current term)
pine nuts
pine oil
pine sawyer
pine siskin
pine snake
pine spittlebug
pine tar
pine terpene
pine tree
pine trees
pine vole
pine weevil
pine woods snake
pineal

Literary usage of Pine nut

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"... 191. o Ref. index at 40° (Zeiss) 73.5 Iodine value 161.7 Free fatty acids, percent 2.3 pine nut OIL. The data in the following table have been collected ..."

2. Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878: Major Howard Egan's Diary : Also by Howard Egan (1917)
"PINE-NUT HARVEST. Jack and I were taking a scouting trip high up in the Shell Creek range of mountains, when we came across an Indian who, ..."

3. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller (1906)
"PINE-NUT. The seed kernels or " nuts " of several species of pine, notably the stone pine of Italy (Pinus Pinea L. order ..."

4. Live Language Lessons by Howard Roscoe Driggs (1915)
"Here is a story of one of these nuts: THE pine nut I am the smallest nut of all — not much larger than a pea. I grow out west on the pitch pine tree, ..."

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