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单词 gernut
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gernutn.

Forms: Also jurnut.
Etymology: ? mistake for yir(d)nut, ernut, earthnut n.; but compare French gernotte or jarnote (Littré s.v. Terre-noix), which recalls the Swedish jordnöt.
Obsolete.
(See quots.)
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1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 39 Jurnut, earth Nut, Bulbocastanum.
1693 T. Robinson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 826 The Roots of our Bulbocastanum..commonly call'd Pig-nuts and Gernuts in the North, lie very deep, and fatten Hogs.
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