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Definition of Bitternuts
1. bitternut [n] - See also: bitternut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bitternuts
Literary usage of Bitternuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"1. Bud-scales in pairs, sometimes developing into small leaves: lateral buds
often stalked. (Pecans and bitternuts). 2. Bud-scales not in opposite pairs. 3. ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1899)
"It is a well known fact that the sweet-nutted hickories and walnuts have thick
shells, and the' bitternuts thin shells. One can draw but one inference, ..."
3. The American Forest: Or, Uncle Philip's Conversations with the Children by Lambert Lilly (1834)
"... that even the pigs will not eat the nutmeg, or either of the bitternuts so
long as they can get any thing else. In some parts of Pennsylvania they make ..."
4. Annual Report by University of Minnesota Board of Regents (1884)
"It is observable that the eastern line of the Big Woods, properly so-called, (ie
comprising large trees of Sugar Maple, bitternuts, Elm, Bass, Oaks, ..."
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