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BUFFALO NUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes
Synonyms:
buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("buffalo nut" is a kind of...):
parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)
Meronyms (parts of "buffalo nut"):
buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut (oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood)
Holonyms ("buffalo nut" is a member of...):
genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia (small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
Synonyms:
buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("buffalo nut" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
Holonyms ("buffalo nut" is a part of...):
buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood (shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes)
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