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bitternut
[bit-er-nuht]
noun
a hickory, Carya cordiformis, of the eastern and southern U.S., bearing a smooth, gray, bitter seed.
bitternut
/ ˈɪəˌʌ /
noun
an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis , with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels
the nut of this plant
Word History and Origins
Origin of bitternut1
Example Sentences
Oaks and purple maples, bitternuts and striped elms.
The nonnative trees include ponderosa pine from South Dakota and Nebraska, and bitternut hickory from southern Minnesota and Illinois.
Among the biggest trees in Indiana is a 155-foot-tall hickory bitternut in Perry County.
This is closely allied to if not a more Southern form of our common bitternut.
THE bitternut hickory is a tall slender tree with broadly pyramidal crown, attaining a height of 100 feet and a diameter of 2 to 3 feet.
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