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♦ nut /nʌt/n.1 (bot., scient.) achenio2 (bot.) (usato come termine generico in alcuni composti:) walnut, noce; hazelnut, nocciola; peanut, nocciolina americana; cashew ( nut), noce di acagiù; Brazil nut, noce del Brasile3 (mecc.) dado4 ( slang) testa, zucca; (fig.) cervello: Use your nut!, adopera la testa!; usa il cervello!; to be off one's nut, essere matto; essere fuori di testa; mancare d'una rotella9 (pl.) piccoli pezzi di carbone10 (pl.) (volg.) palle; coglioni (volg.); zebedei (pop.)● nut allergy, allergia alla frutta secca ( noci, ecc.) □ nut-brown, (color) nocciola □ nut butter, burro di noci □ (bot.) nut-gall, galla nuciforme; galla di quercia □ nut-hook, bacchio per le noci □ nut oil, olio di noci □ (bot.) nut palm, Cycas media □ nuts and bolts, (mecc.) dadi e bulloni, bulloneria; (fig. fam.) dettagli tecnici, rudimenti: the nuts and bolts of cooking, i rudimenti dell'arte culinaria □ nuts-and-bolts (agg.), fondamentale; essenziale; pratico □ (mecc.) nut screw, madrevite □ (bot.) nut tree, noce; ( anche) nocciòlo, avellano □ (zool.) nut weevil ( Balaninus nucum), balanino □ nut wrench, serradadi □ ( slang) to do one's nut, arrabbiarsi; incavolarsi, essere incavolato (pop.) □ ( slang) to go off one's nut, andare giù di testa; impazzire □ ( slang) He can't play bridge for nuts, non sa neanche da che parte si cominci a giocare a bridge.(to) nut /nʌt/A v. i.B v. t.
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brazil-nut tree — noun tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts • Syn: ↑brazil nut, ↑Bertholletia excelsa • Hypernyms: ↑nut tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Bertholletia, ↑genus Bertholletia … Useful english dictionary
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nut tree — noun tree bearing edible nuts • Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree • Hyponyms: ↑kola, ↑kola nut, ↑kola nut tree, ↑goora nut, ↑Cola acuminata, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Brazil nut — Brazil′ nut n. 1) pln the three sided, hard shelled edible seed of a large South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, of the lecythis family 2) pln the tree itself • Etymology: 1820–30 … From formal English to slang
brazil nut — ► NOUN ▪ the large three sided nut of a South American forest tree … English terms dictionary
Brazil nut — n. 1. a gigantic (30 45 m or 100 150 ft) South American tree (Bertholletia excelsa) of the lecythis family, which bears hard shelled, triangular, oily, edible seeds that grow in large, round, hard shelled fruits 2. this seed … English World dictionary
brazil nut — /brəˈzɪl nʌt / (say bruh zil nut) noun the triangular edible seed (nut) of the tree Bertholletia excelsa and related species, of Brazil and elsewhere …
Brazil nut — noun Etymology: Brazil, South America Date: 1830 a tall South American tree (Bertholletia excelsa of the family Lecythidaceae) that bears large globular capsules each containing several closely packed roughly triangular oily edible nuts; also its … New Collegiate Dictionary
brazil nut — noun a) A tree native to tropical South America. b) The nut produced by this tree. Syn: nigger toe … Wiktionary