almond
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē)bor.
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Arabic لَوْز (lawz)sl.
Latin amygdala
Vulgar Latin *amendlader.
Old French almandebor.
Middle English almond
English almond
From Middle English almond, almaund, from Old French almande, amande, from Vulgar Latin *amendla, *amandula, from Latin amygdala, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē), of uncertain origin. Influenced by amandus and by many European words of Arabic origin beginning with the Arabic definite article Arabic ال (al-). Compare Spanish almóndiga and Portuguese almôndega (“meatball”) from Andalusian Arabic البُنْدُقَة (“hazelnut al-bunduqa”). Doublet of amygdala, amygdale, and mandorla.
Inflected forms:
form: almonds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more almond
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most almond
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The seed within the drupe of a small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, considered a culinary nut.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The tree that produces almonds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The colour of the kernel of an almond without its shell and thin seed coat, a creamy off-white colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The colour of an almond still covered by its skin, a shade of brown.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Flavour or other characteristics of almond.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I can't eat it if it has too much almond in it.
gloss: Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a tonsil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The next set are shorter, and are more contracted or acuminated at their posterior end, where they are contiguous to the almonds or tonsils.
gloss: Brownish, resembling the colour of an almond nut.
pos: adj
Derived words: activate someone's almonds
almond aphid
almond blossom
almond butter
almond-butter
almondesque
almond eye
almond-eyed
almond furnace
almond-furnace
almond green
almondine
almond lace bug
almond-leaved willow
almondless
almondlike
almond milk
almondmilk
almond-milk
almond mom
almond moth
almond oil
almond paste
almond pink
almond potato
almond rocks
almond-shaped
almond tofu
almond tree
almond willow
almondwood
almondy
Bengal almond
bitter almond
blanched almond
burnt almond
country almond
dwarf Russian almond
earth almond
flowering almond
green almond
ground almond
Indian almond
Java almond
Johnstone River almond
Jordan almond
Malabar almond
Russian almond
sugared almond
sweet almond
tropical almond
wood almond
Translations:
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܫܓ݂ܘܿܕ݂ܵܐ
roman: šḡōḏā
lang: Catalan
word: ametlla
lang: Finnish
word: mantelinvalkoinen
lang: German
word: Mandelfarbe
lang: Irish
word: dath na halmóinne
lang: Malay
word: badam
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: mandelfarge
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: mandelfarge
lang: Portuguese
word: amêndoa
lang: Sicilian
word: mènnula
lang: Zazaki
word: vamrek