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Webster 1913 Edition
Almond
Alm′ond
(ä′mŭnd)
, Noun.
[OE.
almande
, almaunde
, alemaunde
, F. amande
, L. amygdala
, fr. Gr. ἀμυγδάλη
: cf. Sp. almendra
. Cf. Amygdalate
.] 1.
The fruit of the almond tree.
☞ The different kinds, as bitter, sweet, thin-shelled, thick-shelled almonds, and Jordan almonds, are the products of different varieties of the one species,
Amygdalus communis
, a native of the Mediterranean region and western Asia. 2.
The tree that bears the fruit; almond tree.
3.
Anything shaped like an almond.
Specifically:
(Anat.)
One of the tonsils.
Almond oil
, fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds.
– Oil of bitter almonds
, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde.
– Imitation oil of bitter almonds
, nitrobenzene.
– Almond tree
(Bot.)
, the tree bearing the almond.
– Almond willow
(Bot.)
, a willow which has leaves that are of a light green on both sides; almond-leaved willow (
Salix amygdalina
). Shenstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Almond
AL'MOND
, n.1.
The fruit of the almond tree; an ovate, compressed nut, perforated in the pores. It is either sweet or bitter. [It is popularly pronounced ammond.]2.
The tonsils, two glands near the basis of the tongue, are called almonds, from their resemblance to that nut; vulgularly, but improperly, called the almonds of the ears, as they belong to the throat.3.
In Portugal, a measure by which wine is sold, twenty-six of which make a pipe.[But in Portuguese it is written almude.]
4.
Among lapidaries, almonds signify pieces of rock crystal, used in adorning branch candlesticks, so called from their resemblance to this fruit.Definition 2024
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See also: Almond
English
Almonds (nuts).
Noun
almond (countable and uncountable, plural almonds)
- (countable) A type of tree nut.
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
- 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
- dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
- c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
- (countable) A small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus dulcis, that produces almonds.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 3:
- In early March the almonds are in flower, delicately pink, and there are washes of bright daffodils beneath the orchard trees; you can see women gathering them for market.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 3:
- Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
- Prunus japonica, flowering almond, an ornamental shrub in family Rosaceae
- Prunus andersonii, desert almond, a North American shrub in family Rosaceae
- Prunus fasciculata, desert range almond or wild almond, North American shrub in family Rosaceae
- Terminalia catappa, Indian almond or tropical almond, in family Combretaceae
- Brabejum stellatifolium, wild almond or bitter almond, in family Proteaceae
- (uncountable) The colour of the kernel of an almond without its shell and thin seed coat, a creamy off-white colour.
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almond colour:
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- (uncountable) The color of an almond still covered by its skin, a shade of brown.
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almond colour:
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- Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a tonsil.
- 1828, David Craigie, Elements of General and Pathological Anatomy
- The next set are shorter, and are more contracted or acuminated at their posterior end, where they are contiguous to the almonds or tonsils.
- 1828, David Craigie, Elements of General and Pathological Anatomy
Translations
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colour
Adjective
almond (comparative more almond, superlative most almond)
Translations
resembling the colour of an almond nut
See also
- Appendix:Colors