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Smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
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mockernut
Word definitions for mockernut in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut [syn: mockernut hickory , black hickory , white-heart hickory , big-bud hickory , Carya tomentosa ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
mockernut \mockernut\, mocker nut \mocker nut\n. (Bot.), 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. Syn: mockernut hickory, black ...
Usage examples of mockernut.
It is called the mockernut because while the nut is large, usually larger than the shellbark, the kernel is very small and difficult to take out of the thick shell.