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BITTERNUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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; bitternut hickory; Carya cordiformis; swamp hickory
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bitternut" is a kind of...):
hickory; hickory tree (American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts)
Holonyms ("bitternut" is a member of...):
Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)
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