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bitternut
[ bit-er-nuht ]
noun
- a hickory, Carya cordiformis, of the eastern and southern U.S., bearing a smooth, gray, bitter seed.
bitternut
/ ˈɪəˌʌ /
noun
- an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis , with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels
- the nut of this plant
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Oaks and purple maples, bitternuts and striped elms.
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The nonnative trees include ponderosa pine from South Dakota and Nebraska, and bitternut hickory from southern Minnesota and Illinois.
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Among the biggest trees in Indiana is a 155-foot-tall hickory bitternut in Perry County.
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This is closely allied to if not a more Southern form of our common bitternut.
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THE bitternut hickory is a tall slender tree with broadly pyramidal crown, attaining a height of 100 feet and a diameter of 2 to 3 feet.
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