Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The swamp-hickory of the United States, Carya amara. Its nuts are very thin-shelled, with an intensely bitter kernel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The swamp hickory (
Carya amara ). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
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- noun The bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, a common
hickory tree native to the easternUnited States and southeastCanada . - noun Its
fruit , a bitter nut sometimes used asfeed forlivestock .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
Etymologies
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Examples
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The name bitternut may safely be allowed to remain with Carya cordiformis because the other two nuts with bitter pellicle already have distinctive names, Carya aquatica being called water hickory and Carya texana being called bitter pecan.
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Yet as a root system, the bitternut is the hardiest and easiest to transplant of any of the hickories and for these reasons it makes an ideal stock for the amateur nut-grower to use.
Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933
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The human condition put names to everything: bloodroot rockflower whip-poor-will, tulip bitternut hackberry.
'American Rust' 2009
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Widespread dominants are white oak, red oak, black oak, bitternut hickory, and shagbark hickory.
Eastern Broadleaf Forest (Continental) Province (Bailey) 2009
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Mesic slopes have closed forests that are dominated by sugar maple, bitternut hickory, yellow-poplar, and beech.
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The upland forests of Ecoregion 72g are species-rich, and contain oaks, sugar maple, bitternut hickory, and basswood.
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This would seem to indicate that there are possibilities for some of the pecan-bitternut and pecan-shagbark hybrids in southern Ontario where the shagbark and the bitternut grow quite freely.
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THE PRESIDENT: Isn't the bitternut several times as rapid in growth as the shagbark, or some others?
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The open-bud hickories, comprising the pecan, the bitternut, the water hickory, and the nutmeg hickory, apparently, from my experiments, cross much more readily among each other than they cross with the scale-bud hickories.
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The grafting was done by Dr. Deming, on May 29, 30,31 and June 1 of this year, 31 grafts being set on shagbark stock, 52 on mockernut, 53 on pignut, 47 on pecan and 91 on bitternut, a total of 274.
bilby commented on the word bitternut
This is the name on a packet of melinjo bean, Gnetum gnemon, crackers I bought today. Apparently another name is paddy oat.
December 3, 2009