Crossword clues for bitternut
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bitternut \Bit"ter*nut"\, n. (Bot.) The swamp hickory ( Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The (vern: bitternut hickory), (taxlink Carya cordiformis species noshow=1), a common hickory tree native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada. 2 Its fruit, a bitter nut sometimes used as feed for livestock.
WordNet
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]
Usage examples of "bitternut".
Most of them the result of placing bitternut hickory pollen on staminate butternut flowers.
In an odd jarring switch, at first the lanky hairless alien was a doll less than a hand high carved from the darkest brown bitternut wood, then, abruptly, she was taller than most Ykx, and the pinprick was a portal three wings high.
Here the white basswood grew alongside the hemlock and the bitternut hickory, and the beeches and sweet buckeyes locked arms.
The Seneca had made their canoes from the bark of a red elm or a bitternut hickory, stripped from the tree in one piece, stretched over a frame of white ash, and sewn at the bow and stern.
The house sat between the two barns-one new, one the original-in the middle of a rough, grassy field punctuated with patches of black-eyed Susans, hop clover and bluestem, a stand of bitternut hickory trees, a beautiful American beech and eastern white pines.