different between pecan vs walnut

English

Alternative forms

• paccan, peccan (dated, possibly obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French pacane and at first spelt paccan. The French word derives from an Algonquian word, perhaps Miami (Illinois) pakani. Compare Cree pakan (“hard nut”), Ojibwe bagaan, Abenaki pagann, bagôn, pagôn (“nut; walnut, hazelnut”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??n, -æn, -??n, -i?k?n

Noun

pecan (plural pecans)

1. A deciduous tree, Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
   • 1885, Howard Seely, A Ranchman's stories, page 154:

     And away on the farther bank, a motte of huge pecans, standing like giant sentinels over the dwarfed landscape, filled the eye with remote vistas in their shady, twilight aisles. It was very still.

   • 1978 April, in the Texas Monthly, page 51:

     Within its ornamental fence, the 8/10-acre property includes several of the largest live oaks in the area — plus huge pecans and stately magnolias.

2. A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
   • 1982, Beth Henley, Crimes of the heart, page 17:

     MEG. […] (Meg takes out two pecans and tries to open them by cracking them together.) Come on ... Crack, you demons! Crack!

     LENNY. We have a nutcracker!

     MEG. (Trying with her teeth.) Ah, where's the sport in a nutcracker? Where's the challenge?

3. A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
   • 2005, in The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Joseph Pizzorno, Lara Pizzorno; Atria Books, ?ISBN:

     Each shell contains two pecans, usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed.

Translations

Further reading

• pecan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Capen, NEACP, pance

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pekan/, [?pe.kãn]

Verb

pecan

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of pecar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of pecar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, walnote, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “foreign nut”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”) + *hnuts (“nut”). Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?ln?t/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??ln?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

walnut (usually uncountable, plural walnuts)

1. A hardwood tree of the genus Juglans.
2. A nut of the walnut tree.
3. Wood of the walnut tree.
4. Dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Related terms

• walshnut

Translations

Adjective

walnut (not comparable)

1. Having a dark brown colour, the colour of walnut wood.

Translations

Derived terms

• ash-leaved walnut
• black walnut
• English walnut
• European walnut
• satin walnut
• Walnut Ridge
• white walnut

See also

• butternut
• hickory
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

Wikibooks

• walnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Juglans on Wikispecies.Wikispecies