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gumnut

gumnut noun: the hard woody fruit of trees of the genus Eucalyptus.

Noun

gumnut (plural gumnuts)

  1. The hard woody fruit of trees of the genus Eucalyptus.
    • People don’ really like my room; Mum comes in sometimes an tells me to clean it. But I like the dried gumleaves tied in bunches, the gumnuts linin the windowsill, bird feathers everywhere. […]2019, Alison Evans, Highway Bodies, →ISBN, page 2

Forms of gumnut

pluralgumnuts

Origin of gumnut

From gum + nut.

Questions about gumnut

What does gumnut mean?
Gumnut means the hard woody fruit of trees of the genus Eucalyptus.
What part of speech is gumnut?
Gumnut is a noun.
What is the plural of gumnut?
The plural of gumnut is gumnuts.

Words near gumnut in the dictionary

  1. gummy weeds
  2. gummy worm
  3. gummy worms
  4. gummying up
  5. gumnivorous
  6. gumnut
  7. gumnuts
  8. Gumot-Nagcolaran
  9. gump
  10. gump stump
  11. gump stumps

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