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PERSIAN WALNUT

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Meaning:

Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated

Synonyms:

Circassian walnut; English walnut; English walnut tree; Juglans regia; Persian walnut

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Persian walnut" is a kind of...):

walnut; walnut tree (any of various trees of the genus Juglans)

Meronyms (members of "Persian walnut"):

English walnut (nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively thin shell; widely used in cooking)

Holonyms ("Persian walnut" is a member of...):

genus Juglans; Juglans (type genus of the Juglandaceae)

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