Having a dark browncolour, the colour of walnut wood.
Origin
From Middle English walnote, walnutte, walnotte, walnote, from Old English wealhhnutu, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz ("foreigner") + *hnuts. Cognate with Dutch walnoot, German Walnuss, Swedish valnöt, Icelandic valhneta. Compare more recent term Welsh onion, which also uses Welsh to mean “foreign”.
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