|
Definition of Pine nut
1. Noun. Edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America.
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
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, ..."