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952 words match “NUT”

DIMINUTIVE a. 5 definitions
Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
DIMINUTIVELY adv.
In a diminutive manner.
DIMINUTIVENESS n.
The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
DOUGHNUT n.
A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.
EARTHNUT n. 3 definitions
The peanut. See Peanut.
ELKNUT n.
The buffalo nut. See under Buffalo.
EXCITO-NUTRIENT n.
Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.
FISTINUT n.
A pistachio nut. [Obs.] Johnson.
GALLNUT n.
gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.
GROUNDNUT n. 4 definitions
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.
HAZELNUT n.
The nut of the hazel. Shak.
HOGNUT n. 2 definitions
The pignut. See Hickory.
HORSE-CHESTNUT n. 2 definitions
The large nutlike seed of a species of Æsculus (Æ. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.
IMMINUTION n.
A lessening; diminution; decrease. [R.] Ray.
INNUTRITION n.
Want of nutrition; failure of nourishment. E. Darwin.
INNUTRITIOUS a.
Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.
INNUTRITIVE a.
Innutritious.
INUTILE a.
Useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] Bacon.
INUTILITY n.
Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.
INUTTERABLE a.
Unutterable; inexpressible. Milton.
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