Almond

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈɑːmÉ™nd/
• US IPA: /ˈɑmÉ™nd/, IPA: /ˈɑlmÉ™nd/, IPA: /æmÉ™nd/

Origin

From Old French almande, from Romance *amendla (with -l- in French and Spanish, probably by confusion with similar Arabic words), from Latin amygdala, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη.

Full definition of almond

Noun

1. (countable) A type of tree nut.
2. (countable) A small deciduous tree, , that produces almonds.
• 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 3:In early March the almonds are in flower, delicately pink, and there are washes of bright daffodils beneath the orchard trees; you can see women gathering them for market.
3. (uncountable) The colour of the kernel of an almond without its shell and thin seed coat, a creamy off-white colour.
4. (uncountable) The color of an almond still covered by its skin, a shade of brown.
5. Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a tonsil.
• 1828, David Craigie, Elements of General and Pathological AnatomyThe next set are shorter, and are more contracted or acuminated at their posterior end, where they are contiguous to the almonds or tonsils.

Adjective

1. Brownish, resembling the colour of an almond nut.

Anagrams

• dolman
• old man