| beechnut | (noun) small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees | - |
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| bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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| butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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| (noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
| candlenut | (noun) large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles | Synonyms: Aleurites moluccana, varnish tree |
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| (noun) seed of candlenut tree; source of oil used in varnishes | - |
| chestnut | (noun) a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse | - |
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| (noun) a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg | - |
| (noun) the brown color of chestnuts | - |
| (noun) edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
| (noun) any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur | Synonyms: chestnut tree |
| (noun) wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea | - |
| cobnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, filbert, hazelnut |
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| (noun) small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | Synonyms: Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, filbert |
| cocoanut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: coconut |
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| coconut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: cocoanut |
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| (noun) the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries | Synonyms: coconut meat |
| (noun) tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics | Synonyms: coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera |
| donut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: doughnut, sinker |
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| doughnut | (noun) a small ring-shaped friedcake | Synonyms: donut, sinker |
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| (noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, annulus, halo, ring |
| earthnut | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: truffle |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts | Synonyms: Conopodium denudatum |
| (noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, truffle |
| groundnut | (noun) nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans | Synonyms: potato bean, wild bean |
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| (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, monkey nut, peanut |
| (noun) a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans | Synonyms: Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean |
| hazelnut | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, filbert |
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| (noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk | Synonyms: hazel, hazelnut tree |
| locknut | (noun) supplementary nut that is screwed down on a primary nut to prevent it from loosening | Synonyms: safety nut |
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| mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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| nut | (noun) a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt | - |
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| (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, orchis, testicle, testis |
| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, junky |
| (noun) a whimsically eccentric person | Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball |
| (noun) usually large hard-shelled seed | - |
| (noun) half the width of an em | Synonyms: en |
| peanut | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut |
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| (noun) a young child who is small for his age | - |
| (noun) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground | Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine |
| (noun) underground pod of the peanut vine | - |
| pignut | (noun) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts | Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory |
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| thumbnut | (noun) a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning | Synonyms: butterfly nut, wing-nut, wing nut, wing screw |
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| walnut | (noun) nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell | - |
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| (noun) any of various trees of the genus Juglans | Synonyms: walnut tree |
| (noun) hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling | - |