Nutmeg (disambiguation) explained

Nutmeg is a spice, usually obtained from the plant Myristica fragrans. It may also refer to:

Living things

Plants

• Agathophyllum aromaticum, a shrub sometimes known as clove nutmeg or Madagascar nutmeg
• Atherosperma moschatum, an Australian tree sometimes known as plume nutmeg or New Holland nutmeg
• Carya myristiciformis, a species of hickory tree also known as nutmeg hickory
• Leycesteria formosa, a shrub sometimes known as flowering nutmeg or Himalaya nutmeg
• Monodora myristica a tropical tree sometimes known as calabash nutmeg, African nutmeg or Jamaican nutmeg
• Myristica argentea, Papua nutmeg, Guinea nutmeg, Norse nutmeg or Macassar nutmeg
• Myristica fragrans, fragrant nutmeg, the usual source of the spice
• Myristica malabarica, Malabar nutmeg, or Bombay nutmeg
• Torreya, a genus of conifers also known as nutmeg yew
• Montreal melon, sometimes called "nutmeg melon"

Animals

• Nutmeg snails, a common name of the genus Cancellariidae
  • Common nutmeg, a species of nutmeg snail
• Nutmeg (moth)
• Scaly-breasted munia, also known as the nutmeg mannikin

Music

• Nutmeg (band), an indie-rock band from Sweden
• The Nutmegs, a doo wop group from the 1950s
• "Nutmeg", a track on Ghostface's album Supreme Clientele
• "Nutmeg", a track on Das Racist's mixtape Shut Up, Dude
• "Nutmeg", a track on Infected Mushroom's album Return to the Sauce

Other uses

• Nutmeg 24, a Canadian sailboat design
• Nutmeg (cat), the former longest-lived cat
• Nutmeg (association football), a football technique
• Nutmeg (company), an investment company based in London
• Nutmeg oil, a volatile oil derived from nutmeg
• Nutmeg (train), a former passenger train of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
• Nutmeg (crossword compiler), a pseudonym of crossword compiler Margaret Irvine (1948-2023)

See also

• "The Nutmeg State", a nickname for Connecticut
• Nutmegger, a nickname for people from the state of Connecticut