chile nut

Questions about chile nut

What does chile nut mean?

chile nut means "Chilean shrub bearing coral-red fruit with an edible seed resembling a hazelnut".

What is another word for chile nut?

Close synonyms include Chilean nut, Chile hazel, Chilean hazelnut, Guevina heterophylla, Guevina avellana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chile nut a common word?

chile nut is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.