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An almond is a flat, pale nut with a thin brown skin and a sweet taste. We also use the same word for the tree that grows these nuts. You eat them roasted, find them in cakes and chocolate, and can make a white drink from them. Though actually there is a bitter kind too, used only in tiny amounts for flavour or medicine — that is not a snack. Almond as a colour is a light tan, like the inside of the nut. The word is ordinary kitchen English, not a formal or scientific one, though doctors the old Latin cousin of this word for an almond-shaped part of the brain.
杏仁（台灣零食說杏仁；大陸有時稱巴旦木。中藥的南北杏較苦，不是同一種零食用堅果）
組成From Ancient Greek amugdálē, then Latin amygdala, Vulgar Latin, Old French almande / amande, then Middle English. The Greek origin is uncertain. The al- at the start was influenced by the Arabic word for “the”, which is why it looks a little like other old Arabic borrowings.
同家族的字
- amygdalasame Latin/Greek word for ‘almond’; English uses it for the almond-shaped part of the brain
原始詞典資料18 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Almondname詞源 1
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A surname.
- Marc Almond (born 1957), English musician
Almondname詞源 2
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A town in Allegany County, New York, United States.
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A village in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.
Almondname詞源 3
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A river in North Lanarkshire council area, West Lothian council area and Edinburgh council area, Scotland, which empties into the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh.
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A river in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, which joins the River Tay.
almondnoun/ˈɑː.mənd/
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The seed within the drupe of a small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, considered a culinary nut.
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The tree that produces almonds.
- 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.
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Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
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Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
另外 4 個記錄的用法
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The colour of the kernel of an almond without its shell and thin seed coat, a creamy off-white colour.
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The colour of an almond still covered by its skin, a shade of brown.
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Flavour or other characteristics of almond.
- I can't eat it if it has too much almond in it.
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Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a tonsil.
- The next set are shorter, and are more contracted or acuminated at their posterior end, where they are contiguous to the almonds or tonsils.
almondadj/ˈɑː.mənd/
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Brownish, resembling the colour of an almond nut.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。