Home › Words › W › welshnutwelshnutwelshnut means A walnut (nut or tree).EtymologyFrom Middle English walsh-note, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “Welsh-nut”), equivalent to Welsh + nut.nounA walnut (nut or tree).e.g.“[…] Our tongues do run, O, / Enough to stun, O, / Your head wi' glee by the welshnut tree.” — 1879, William Barnes, “The Welshnut Tree”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 85:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.walshnut 73% match — walnut vs welshnut →bannut 71% match — An English walnut. vs welshnut →nutwood 68% match — The wood of any nut-bearing tree. vs welshnut →cobnut 64% match — A nut of a common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut. vs welshnut →nutlet 64% match — A small nut. vs welshnut →akhrot 64% match — walnut. vs welshnut →nutly 63% match — Of, relating to, or resembling a nut or nuts; nutlike. vs welshnut →arnut 62% match — The earthnut. vs welshnut →