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Pignut

noun
1.
An American hickory tree having bitter nuts.  Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory.



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"Pignut" Quotes from Famous Books



... hickories and with hicans have been much more encouraging in so far as the set of scions and growth is concerned. The following varieties have done well on the pignut or bitternut—Burlington, Beaver, Cedar Rapids, Creager, Dennis, Des Moines, Fairbanks, Kirtland, Laney, Lingenfelter, McCallister, Stratford, and Shinnerling. It is definitely known that most of these varieties are of hybrid origin with the exception of Cedar Rapids and Kirtland. ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association
... nothin' stronger than root beer, made by my own hands out of pignut and sassparilla, should ever be sot on my table. But I may see trouble with him in that way. Whilst we wuz talkin' about it, I brung up to illustrate the principles I wuz promulgatin', the ivory tankard Arvilly pinted out to ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley


Words linked to "Pignut" :   bitter pignut, pignut hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, hickory tree, genus Carya, Carya, black hickory, hickory


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