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mockernut
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mockernut has 1 sense
- mockernut(n = noun.plant) big-bud hickory, black hickory, carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory - smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut; Array is a member of carya, genus carya
is a kind of hickory, hickory tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
mockernut, 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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