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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

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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bitter +‎ nut

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  • 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