Wingnut Explained

Wingnut may refer to:

Botany

• Pterocarya, a genus of trees bearing winged nuts
• Terminalia canescens, a species of tree native to northern Australia

Entertainment

• , a video game created by Rocket Science Games
• Wingnut, a character in the Care Bears franchise introduced in the movie Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!
• Wingnut, a character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
• , a computer game created by Freeverse Software

Sports

• Wichita Wingnuts, a Wichita, Kansas, baseball team
• Wingnut, nickname of Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist
• Wingnut, nickname of Robert Weaver (born 1965), an American surfer
• WingNuts, name of a capsized sports boat involving fatalities in the 2011 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac

Other uses

• Wingnut (hardware), a nut with a pair of wings to enable it to be easily turned by hand
• Wingnut (politics), an American slang term for a person who holds extreme political views
• WingNut Films, film production company owned by Peter Jackson