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bitterish |
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bitternut
| bitternut hickory
| bitterroot
| bitters
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| bittersweet chocolate
bitternut
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bitternut has 1 sense
- bitternut(n = noun.plant) bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, carya cordiformis, swamp hickory - hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts; Array is a member of carya, genus carya
is a kind of hickory, hickory tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
bitternut, n.
The swamp hickory (Carya amara ). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter. [1913 Webster]
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