nut|meg

nut|meg
nut|meg «NUHT mehg», noun.
1. a hard, spicy seed about as big as a marble, obtained from the fruit of a tree growing in the East Indies. The seed is grated and used for flavoring food. »

Nutmeg and mace are the only two different spices harvested from the same fruit (Science News Letter).

2. the evergreen tree it grows on.
3. the similar product of various related trees.
[Middle English notemuga, half-translation of unrecorded Old French nois mugue nut smelling like musk < nois nut (< Latin nux) + mugue musk < Late Latin muscus]

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