Noun: almond
| Singular | almond |
| Plural | almonds |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 3:]
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I can't eat it if it has too much almond in it.
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The next set are shorter, and are more contracted or acuminated at their posterior end, where they are contiguous to the almonds or tonsils. [1828, David Craigie, Elements of General and Pathological Anatomy:]
Nouns inflected like almond
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē)bor.
3. ▲
4. Arabic لَوْز (lawz)sl.
5. Latin amygdala
6. Vulgar Latin *amendlader.
7. Old French almandebor.
8. Middle English almond
9. English almond
10. From Middle English almond, almaund, from Old French almande, amande, from Vulgar Latin *amendla, *amandula, from Latin amygdala, from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē), of uncertain origin. Influenced by amandus and by many European words of Arabic origin beginning with the Arabic definite article Arabic ال (al-). Compare Spanish almóndiga and Portuguese almôndega (“meatball”) from Andalusian Arabic البُنْدُقَة (“hazelnut al-bunduqa”). Doublet of amygdala, amygdale, and mandorla. See: Middle English Nouns '
almond', Latin Nouns '
amygdala', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἀμυγδάλη', Spanish Nouns '
almóndiga', Portuguese Nouns '
almôndega'.
Verbs referencing "almond"
Dutch Nouns
amandel.