walnut

Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Juglans, having pinnately compound leaves and fruits with a rounded sticky husk that encloses an edible seed with a hard shell.

The nut or corrugated seed of any of these trees.

The hard, dark brown wood of any of these trees, used for gunstocks and in cabinetwork.

In the West Indies, a name often applied to the angelin or cabbage-tree, Vouacapoua Americana, from its resemblance in leaf and fruit to the English walnut. See cabbage-tree, 2, and Andira.

The fruit of the nut-bearing tree Juglans regia; also, the tree itself, or its wood.

In the United States, frequently, same as black walnut and rock-walnut (the fruit, the tree, or its wood). See below.

In parts of New York, New England, and some other lo calities, same as hickory-nut or hickory. This is sometimes distinguished as shagbark or shell-bark walnut.

The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

a tree (Juglans fraxinifolia), native in Transcaucasia.