Usually means: Spice made from Myristica seeds.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word nutmeg:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nutmeg, nutmeg: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nutmeg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nutmeg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nutmeg: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nutmeg: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nutmeg, nutmeg: Wordnik
  7. nutmeg: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nutmeg: Wiktionary
  9. nutmeg: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nutmeg: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nutmeg: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nutmeg: Dictionary.com
  13. nutmeg: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nutmeg: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Nutmeg (association football), Nutmeg (band), Nutmeg (cat), Nutmeg (company), Nutmeg (disambiguation), Nutmeg (football), Nutmeg (moth), Nutmeg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nutmeg: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nutmeg: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nutmeg: Rhymezone
  19. Nutmeg: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nutmeg: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nutmeg: Free Dictionary
  22. nutmeg: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nutmeg: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of Spices (No longer online)
  4. Congo Cookbook (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nutmeg: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. nutmeg: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nutmeg: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nutmeg: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. nutmeg: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nutmeg: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See nutmegs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds.
noun:  The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice.
noun:  (uncountable) The powdered seed, ready for use.
noun:  (countable) A whole nutmeg seed.
noun:  A small moth, Hadula trifolii, feeding on plants and native to the Northern Hemisphere.
noun:  A grey-brown colour.
noun:  (soccer, field hockey or ice hockey, basketball) The playing of the ball between the legs of an opponent.
verb:  (transitive) To flavour with nutmeg.
verb:  (sports, transitive) To play the ball between the legs of (an opponent).

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