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Answer for the clue "Small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts ", 9 letters:
pistachio

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pistache \Pis*tache"\, n. [OE. pistace, fr. F. pistache. See Pistachio .] (Bot.) The anacardiaceous tree Pistacia vera , which yields the pistachio nut; also, the nut itself and the flavoring extract prepared from it. Called also pistachio .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts [syn: Pistacia vera , pistachio tree ] nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel [syn: pistachio nut ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Apricots require 700 to 1000 hours; peaches range from 650 to 850 hours and pistachios need 600 to 800 hours. ▪ Fold in the pistachios. 4. ▪ For the past 30 years Aegina has been producing about the best pistachios in the world. ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Italian pistacchio , from Latin pistacium "pistachio nut," from Greek pistakion "pistachio nut," from pistake "pistachio tree," from Persian pistah "pistachio." Borrowed earlier (1530s) as pystace , from Old French form pistace (13c.), which ...

Usage examples of pistachio.

Europe by the Crusaders and its figs and pistachios which the Romans transplanted around the Mediterranean as a far-flung gift from the Damascenes, worshipper once of Adad the storm-god and later a flourishing center of Christianity and Islam, holy to Christians because of the conversion of St.

It had peanuts, pecans, pistachios, almonds, cashews, Brazil, acorns, macadamia, walnut, chestnut, pine, beechnut, filbert, hickory, mixed.

There was a compote of fresh melon and passion fruit sorbet, spinach salad with raspberry vinaigrette followed by breast of chicken in a vermouth and ginger cream sauce, and an exotic rice pilaf containing little bits of dried fruits and pistachio nuts.

There was chicken cooked in pomegranate juice, and lamb cubed and marinated and broiled in a manner called kabab, and a rose-flavored sharbat cold with snow, and a billowy, trembling confection like a fluffed-up nougat, made of fine white flour, cream, honey, daintily flavored with oil of pistachio, and called a balesh.

He shoved the eager young sacker away, and for a second thought he might have to strike him to keep his precious pistachios out of another bag.

Typical sources of monounsaturated fats include olives, avocado, and selected nuts, such as almonds, pistachios, and macadamia.

Nut butters, made from ground almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, or other nuts, and found in health food stores, do not carry the added sugars or preservatives of commercially sold and processed butters, such as peanut butter.

Loredan and Mocenigo were already there, as Foscari had anticipated, eating pistachio nuts and sipping sherbet through rice straws out of tall glasses from Murano.

Another is entrusted with the digging of your garden, he eats your citrons and your pistachios, and treats us like negroes.

Consider: had you not been kicked out of a fine castle for love of Mistress Cunégonde—had you not come under the Inquisition—had you not travelled over America on foot—had you not run the Baron through the body—had you not lost your sheep from the good country of El Dorado—why, then, you would not now be here, to eat candied citrons and pistachio nuts.

For in Acornes, Almonds, Pistachios, Wallnuts, and accuminated shells, the germ puts forth at the remotest part of the pulp.

Down the first base line, twenty-five American players in Yankee pinstripes with red, white and blue hats fidgeted, adjusted jewelry, chewed pistachios, and scratched crotch the way ballplayers always did.

Doctors forbade game, goose liver, pistachios, truffles, and ginger, but they did not say which fish were not advisable.

I have silver hair and satin slippers, a green mask, am wrapped in silk pistachio and pink: at first, before the mirror, this horrifies me, then pleases to rapture, for I am very beautiful, and later, when the waltz begins, Pepe, who does not know, begs a dance, and I, oh sly Cinderella, smile beneath my mask, thinking: Ah, if I were really me!

The air flashed pistachio green in the weird light for an instant and the offensive tunic was stricken in midair, inches from Keller as he pulled himself out of the pond.