WordNet
bitternut hickory
n. hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts [syn: bitternut, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, swamp hickory, Carya cordiformis]
Usage examples of "bitternut hickory".
Here the white basswood grew alongside the hemlock and the bitternut hickory, and the beeches and sweet buckeyes locked arms.
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.