Lexic.us

Definition of Buffalo nut

1. Noun. Oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood.

2. Noun. Shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buffalo Nut

buffalo-skin buffalo-skins buffalo berry buffalo bur buffalo carpet beetle buffalo chip buffalo clover buffalo fish buffalo gnat buffalo gourd

buffalo hump buffalo jump buffalo jumps buffalo neck buffalo nut (current term) buffalo robe buffalo robes buffalo soldier buffalo soldiers buffalo type

buffalo wing buffalo wings buffaloberries buffaloberry buffaloburger buffaloburgers buffaloe buffaloed buffaloes

Literary usage of Buffalo nut

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Buffalo-nut, etc. Santalaceae. Lai in, "pear like". Syn, Hamiltonia, in part. ... Oil-nut, Buffalo-nut, Elk-nut. Seeds rich in oil. 1699. PYRUS, L. (Pirus). ..."

2. The Nut Culturist: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting and Cultivation by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1896)
"The fruit is about the size of a plum, containing one seed or nut, which is only edible after roasting. buffalo nut.—See Oil nut. ..."

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