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Definition of Pistachio

1. Noun. Small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts.

2. Noun. Nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel.

Definition of Pistachio

1. n. The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceæ, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.

2. n. The small anacardiaceous tree, of southern Europe and Asia Minor, which bears the pistachio nut.

Definition of Pistachio

1. Noun. A deciduous tree grown in parts of Asia for its drupaceous fruit ¹

2. Noun. The nutlike fruit of this tree ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pistachio

1. [n -CHIOS]

Medical Definition of Pistachio

1. The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish colour, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odour; called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily. Alternative forms: pistachia. Origin: It. Pistacchio (cf. Sp. Pistacho, F. Pistache), fr. L. Pistacium, Gr, fr. Per. Pistah. Cf. Fistinut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistachio

pistache pistaches pistachio (current term) pistachio green pistachio nut pistachio tree pistachioes pistachios pistacia pistacias

pistacite pistacites pistareen pistareens pistazite pistazites piste

Literary usage of Pistachio

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

1. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"The nut of the pistachio (pistachio vera) is used very largely for ... The pistachio is also grown to some extent in the southern part of the United States ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The pistachio is a tree 20 or 30 ft. high, its leaves with three or five leaflets; the small flowers are dioecious, the males in close clusters, ..."

3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"pistachio-nuts are not much eaten as a fruit ; they aro more used in cooking and confectionery, and in making soap, hair-oil, and cosmetics. ..."

4. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller (1906)
"The fruit is a dry drupe with an oily seed, which, freed from the pericarp, is known in commerce as the pistachio-nut or green almond, and is extensively ..."

5. The Expositor edited by William Robertson Nicoll, Samuel Cox, James Moffatt (1877)
"The pistachio tree of ... reached but up to the shoulders of Adda Dialah, and common people were but half as tall as the pistachio tree of ..."

6. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"pistachio-NUTS : EIGHT OBSERVATIONS UPON THEM. CHESNUTS: FIVE OBSERVATIONS UPON THEM. Hazel-nuts a are productive of head-ache, and flatulency of the ..."

7. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"Dr. Hooker saw only two or three pistachio-trees in Palestine. ... pistachio-nuts are much esteemed as an article of diet both by Orientals and ..."

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