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HAZEL NUT
Traducere în limba română
hazel nut substantiv
(bot.) alună.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
However, an unlucky school-boy aimed a hazel nut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me; otherwise it came with so much violence, that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large as a small pumpkin, but I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten, and turned out of the room.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
This nut, he continued, with playful solemnity, while so many of his brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel nut can be supposed capable of.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)