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Meanings of nut in English

Portuguese
testículo
Catalan
dídim
Spanish
huevo
Wikidata

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens.

      testículo
      Russian
      орехи
      Portuguese
      noz
      Spanish
      fruto seco
      Catalan
      fruita seca
      Wikidata

      Dry, edible fruit or seed which usually has a high fat content.

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          орехи
          Russian
          гайка
          Portuguese
          porca
          Spanish
          tuerca
          Catalan
          femella
          Wikidata

          Type of fastener with a threaded hole.

                  Related terms
                  гайка
                  Spanish
                  fisurero
                  Wikidata

                  Metal wedge threaded on a wire.

                        fisurero
                        Usage of nut in English
                        1
                        Put a nut in the place of the stone in the cherries.
                        Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties / With Fifty Illust...
                        2
                        Grafting is widely used in plants, especially in fruit and nut crops.
                        Pubmed
                        3
                        Sorry-justneed to test it. I gave the nut a firm bounce.
                        Climbing Magazine
                        4
                        Many cocoa-nut trees were seen in the lower parts of the island.
                        A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 / Undertaken for the purp...
                        5
                        A great nut placement will allow dramatic shifts in direction of pull.
                        Rock and Ice Magazine
                        6
                        The bird also lives on the beech-nut and seeds of the cypress.
                        The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
                        7
                        It's been a particularly tough nut to crack for other news organizations.
                        Wired
                        8
                        The eponymous nut tree, along with the region's prosperity, was long gone.
                        Think of a number
                        9
                        But she's such a nut job, who knows if it's the truth?
                        Hush: a novel
                        10
                        There are about three near the ponds; and they are like nut-shells.
                        The Settlers at Home
                        11
                        That settles everything and puts the case of Belgium in a nut-shell.
                        Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium
                        12
                        A nut, I know, thanks, you're not the first to say so.
                        The unseen
                        13
                        It is used with the areca-nut, the product of the graceful areca-palm.
                        My First Voyage to Southern Seas
                        14
                        Every fruit and nut grower should know the simple theory of pollination.
                        Walnut Growing in Oregon
                        15
                        Mr. Sperry the science teacher, is deeply interested in the nut trees.
                        Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 194...
                        16
                        The nut represents food energy in its most delectable and concentrated form.
                        Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fir...
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