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
- noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
- noun The core or most essential part of an idea, argument, or system.
- noun Computing: the central part of an operating system that controls hardware and manages how programs communicate with it.
nut — full definition
- noun A hard-shelled seed or dry fruit, often edible.
- noun A small piece of hardware with a threaded hole, used with a bolt to fasten things together.
- noun Informal: a crazy or eccentric person, or an enthusiast for a particular subject.
- verb Slang: to headbutt someone.