nuc

Shortening.

• IPA^(key): /njuːk/
• Hyphenation: nuc
• Rhymes: -uːk
• Homophones: neuk, nuke

nuc (plural nucs)

1. (beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
   • 1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (page 110)

     I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week […]

• nuke

• UNC, cun, unc

• nucu

From Latin nux, nucis.

nuc m (plural nuts)

1. walnut tree

• nucã

From Latin nux, nucis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. In Romanian, the names of nuts or fruits are usually feminine while the names of the corresponding trees or bushes are masculine; compare păr, prun, alun, măr, etc.

nuc m (plural nuci)

1. walnut (tree)

• nucă
• nucar
• nucșoară

• nucet

• nuc in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

nuc

1. water

• This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists is nog.

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.