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BEECHNUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beechnut mean? 

BEECHNUT (noun)
  The noun BEECHNUT has 1 sense:

1. small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech treesplay

  Familiarity information: BEECHNUT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEECHNUT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("beechnut" is a kind of...):

edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)

Holonyms ("beechnut" is a part of...):

beech; beech tree (any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions)


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