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Webster 1913 Edition


Oilnut

Oil′nutˊ

,
Noun.
(Bot.)
The buffalo nut. See
Buffalo nut
, under
Buffalo
.
☞ The name is also applied to various nuts and seeds yielding oil, as the butternut, cocoanut, oil-palm nut.

Definition 2024


oilnut

oilnut

English

Noun

oilnut (plural oilnuts)

  1. Any nut from which oil may be commercially extracted
  2. The buffalo nut (nut of Pyrularia oleifera)