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nut

noun as in seed of fruit, vegetable

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noun as in crazy, overenthusiastic person

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Example Sentences

Beech-Nut is still in existence, and is the third largest baby food manufacturer in the United States.

White King Soap sponsored the show on the West Coast, and Beech-Nut Gum in the East.

The Donbass region is a harder nut to crack—the Ukrainians are determined to keep it.

During the first 32 minutes of Left Behind, the message is this: Christians are nut jobs.

Bob McDonnell went from GOP family-values godsend to blaming everything on his ‘nut bag’ wife.

This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.

It is prepared from the nut of the areca palm, one of the most beautiful trees in the world.

For each guest there was a cocoa-nut shell, half-filled with miti, a sourish beverage extracted from the cocoa-palm.

We had each of us a fresh cocoa-nut with a hole bored in it, containing at least a pint of clear, sweet-tasting water.

It is about the size of a nut, with a brown verrucous outside; the edible part is white and tender, and the kernel black.

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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nut, such as: kernel, achene, caryopsis, stone, and utricle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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