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Bitternut \Bit"ter*nut"\, n. (Bot.)
The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are
bitter.
[1913 Webster]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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bitternut noun
hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7
or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts [syn: bitternut
hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, swamp
hickory, Carya cordiformis]
Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
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Bitternut \Bit"ter*nut"\, n. (Bot.)
The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are
bitter.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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