English walnut

English walnut (plural English walnuts)

1. A walnut tree of the species Juglans regia.

   Synonyms: Carpathian walnut, common walnut, Madeira walnut, Persian walnut

2. A nut of this tree.

   Synonym: (dialectal, England) bannut

   • 1970 April 5, Jacqueline H. Hunter, “Hardy Nuts to Grow in the Northeast”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 April 2020:

     The hardy Thomas strain generally reaches 65 feet, and where it has 150 growing days between frosts it produces a generous crop of nuts. Harder to crack than the English walnuts, they have a distinct flavor of their own that is excellent. The English walnut (J. regia) is sold in grocery stores.

   • 1994 September 28, Suzanne Hamlin, “Walnuts: Good Taste, Good Fat”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 December 2022:

     The English walnut is a firm, brown meat contained in a tan, oval, crinkly shell that itself is enclosed in a hard, brown husk when on the tree.

   • 2000 December 3, Daniel B. Schneider, “F.Y.I.”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:

     A reporter from a Detroit newspaper described the tree as “most picturesque and uncanny . . . it was brilliantly lighted with many colored globes about the size of an English walnut and was turning some six times a minute in a little pine box.”