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nut

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

Entityfood ingredientQ3320037

Also known as nuts · culinary nut · dry nut · food nut · nuts as food · dry fruit

Instance of: food ingredient
Subclass of: fruit
, food
Part of: wild food

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A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel that usually is edible. In general usage and in a culinary sense, many dry seeds are called nuts. In a botanical context, "nut" implies that the shell does not open to release the seed (indehiscent).

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Has list: list of culinary nuts
list of edible seeds
Different from: dried fruit
dry fruit
nut
Partially coincident with: nut

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14 identifiers linking nut across the web's reference databases

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