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Webster 1913 Edition


Bitternut

Bit′ter-nut′

,
Noun.
(Bot.)
The swamp hickory (
Carya amara
). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

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bitternut

bitternut

English

Noun

bitternut (plural bitternuts)

  1. The bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, a common hickory tree native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
  2. Its fruit, a bitter nut sometimes used as feed for livestock.

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