Definition of "nogal" [nogal]

• In Spanish America, a name given to various species of Juglans: in Porto Rico, to the indigenous J. Jamaicensis. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He said Marais cornered an official driving the vehicle and after an exchange of words concluded by saying "driving nogal a kaffir burgemeester - a council vehicle is not a taxi.""
• "Just now I checked the online bilingual and monolingual dictionaries I usually use and learned that here in Mexico and in Spain "nogal" refers to the tree and the wood; the nut is "nuez" in Spain and "nuez de Castilla" in Mexico."
• "So I remembering learning that walnut was "nogal" ( "pecan" never came up)."