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mocker nut
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mocker nut, n.
- A smooth-barked North American hickory (
Carya tomentosa ) with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut. [1913 Webster] - The fruit of the mockernut{1}. [PJC]
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