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Bitternut

noun
1.
Hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts.  Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory.



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"Bitternut" Quotes from Famous Books



... rough idea of the testing I did, I will mention some of my work among hickories. I was fortunate enough to have a forest of bitternut trees on my land. It is a well-known fact that, at least temporarily, these bitternut hickories lend themselves well as grafting stock for many superior varieties of hickories, hicans and pecans, although the last species seldom is considered permanently ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report • Various



Words linked to "Bitternut" :   hickory, hickory tree, swamp hickory, Carya, genus Carya



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