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pähkinä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • kernel noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
  • nut noun A hard-shelled seed or dry fruit, often edible.
  • nutty adj Tasting or smelling of nuts.
  • pig noun A farm animal with a snout and cloven hooves, raised for meat.
  • puzzle verb To confuse or mystify someone.
  • walnut noun A tree of the genus Juglans, grown for its wood and edible nuts.

Senses

pähkinä is used for these senses in English:

  • kernel (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
  • kernel (mathematics, algebra, loosely, of a morphism f between algebraic structures) The set of elements of the domain of f which are mapped to an identity element.
  • nut (food, broadly) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
  • nutty Containing nuts.
  • pig (informal) A difficult problem.
  • puzzle A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
  • walnut A nut of the walnut tree.

kernel — full definition

  1. noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
  2. noun The core or most essential part of an idea, argument, or system.
  3. noun Computing: the central part of an operating system that controls hardware and manages how programs communicate with it.

nut — full definition

  1. noun A hard-shelled seed or dry fruit, often edible.
  2. noun A small piece of hardware with a threaded hole, used with a bolt to fasten things together.
  3. noun Informal: a crazy or eccentric person, or an enthusiast for a particular subject.
  4. verb Slang: to headbutt someone.

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