Bitternut

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bitternut \Bit"ter*nut"\, n. (Bot.)
     The swamp hickory ({Carya amara}). Its thin-shelled nuts are
     bitter.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  bitternut
       n : hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7
           or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts [syn: {bitternut
           hickory}, {bitter hickory}, {bitter pignut}, {swamp
           hickory}, {Carya cordiformis}]