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a brain-shaped nut that's been faking you out about its IQ for centuries
means A hard-shelled edible nut with a wrinkled, two-lobed kernel, grown on trees of the genus Juglans and eaten on its own or used in baking and cooking.
from From Old English 'walhhnutu', literally the 'foreign nut' — 'walh' meaning foreign or Welsh (the Anglo-Saxon word for the Celtic and Romanized peoples) plus 'hnutu', nut. The name marked it as the nut that arrived from abroad, by way of Gaul and Rome, to set it apart from the native hazelnut. That 'walh' root is the same one that, oddly enough, gave us 'Welsh' and the place-name 'Wales' — the nut and the nation share an ancestor meaning 'the foreigners.'
- oldest food
- Eaten by humans for over 8,000 years
- royal nut
- Romans called it Jupiter's acorn
- toxic tree
- Walnut roots poison nearby plants with juglone
- black gold
- Prized walnut wood made gunstocks and grand pianos
- brain match
- Both halves of the shell mimic two hemispheres
carpathian walnut — tree native to southeastern europe, produces highly prized dark wood used in fine furniture
black walnut — north american tree species, wood valued at $10-20 per board foot for gunstocks and veneer
english walnut — also called persian walnut, cultivated in california's central valley producing 99% of us commercial supply