Nuts
See also: List of edible nuts
According to the botanical definition, nuts are a particular kind of seed. Chestnuts, hazelnuts, and acorns are examples of nuts, under this definition. In culinary terms, however, the term is used more broadly to include fruits that are not botanically qualified as nuts, but that have a similar appearance and culinary role. Examples of culinary nuts include almonds, coconuts, peanuts and cashews.
- Almond
- Beech
- Brazil nut
- Candlenut
- Cashew
- Chestnuts, including:
- Chinese Chestnut
- Sweet Chestnut
- Coconut
- Colocynth
- Cucurbita ficifolia
- Filbert
- Gevuina avellana
- Hickory, including
- Pecan
- Shagbark Hickory
- Terminalia catappa
- Hazelnut
- Indian Beech
- Kola nut
- Macadamia
- Malabar chestnut
- Pistacia
- Mamoncillo
- Maya nut
- Mongongo
- Oak acorns
- Ogbono nut
- Paradise nut
- Pili nut
- Walnut
- Black Walnut
- Water Caltrop
Read more about this topic: List Of Edible Seeds
Famous quotes containing the word nuts:
“When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
When our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me
To sing the sweet chorus of ‘Ha, ha, he!’”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“It is true, there are the innocent pleasures of country life, and it is sometimes pleasant to make the earth yield her increase, and gather the fruits in their season; but the heroic spirit will not fail to dream of remoter retirements and more rugged paths. It will have its garden-plots and its parterres elsewhere than on the earth, and gather nuts and berries by the way for its subsistence, or orchard fruits with such heedlessness as berries.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry’s cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)