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Definition of Apple nut

1. Noun. Nutlike seed of a South American palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. buttons.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apple Nut

Literary usage of Apple nut

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"All fruits are either simple or multiple; the'former proceeding from a single flower, as the Apple, Nut, Strawberry, &c.: the latter formed out of several ..."

2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1853)
"... at one of the public institutions, being too miserly, lazy, or indolent, ti continue the apple, nut, and lozenge trade in cold weather. ..."

3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1853)
"... the expense of the city, during the winter season, at one of the public institutions, being too miserly, lazy, or indolent, to continue the apple, nut, ..."

4. The Medical Times and Gazette (1858)
"The term fruit includes different organs when applied to die apple, nut, plum, strawberry, pine-apple, and fig ; what are the organs common to all, ..."

5. Materia medica of India and their therapeutics by Rustomjee Naserwanjee Khory (1903)
"... of an olive green colour ; in size it resembles a small apple-nut, ovoid and somewhat flattened ; shell hard and thick ; kernel thick, white and oily. ..."

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