BEECHNUT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("beechnut" is a kind of...):

edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)

Holonyms ("beechnut" is a part of...):

beech; beech tree (any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions)

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