Definition of nuit

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

The flavor is neither sweet , like a pear , nor tart like an orange ; it is subtle and rather bland , nut like .

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

There had been some coconut in it , for I remember my mother 's taking a quick glance at a stringy bit of this nut on the cheek of one of them and_then putting_down her radish with a shiver .