english walnut
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.55 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A walnut tree of the species Juglans regia.
Example Sentences
- "The hardy Thomas strain generally reaches 65 feet, and where it has 150 growing days between frosts it produces a generous crop of nuts. Harder to crack than the English walnuts, they have a distinct flavor of their own that is excellent. The English walnut (J. regia) is sold in grocery stores."
- "The English walnut is a firm, brown meat contained in a tan, oval, crinkly shell that itself is enclosed in a hard, brown husk when on the tree."
- "A reporter from a Detroit newspaper described the tree as “most picturesque and uncanny . . . it was brilliantly lighted with many colored globes about the size of an English walnut and was turning some six times a minute in a little pine box.”"