The Latin word for nut is
nux
Translations for nut and their definitions
| nux | |
| 1. n. A nut | |
| 2. n. A nut-tree | |
| Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix, nuces. | |
| 3. n. A fruit with a hard shell or rind | |
| Nux amara. | |
| A bitter almond. | |
| Castaneae nuces. | |
| Chestnuts. | |
| Nux pinea. | |
| The fruit of the tithymalus. | |
| 4. n. (figuratively) a thing of no value | |
| Non ego tuam empsim vitam vitiosa nuce. | |
| I should not have bought your life with a vicious worthless thing. | |
| 5. n. (poetic) an almond tree |
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