bitternut

noun

bit·​ter·​nut

variants or bitternut hickory

: a hickory (Carya cordiformis) of the eastern U.S. having a slender trunk, rough bark, leaves with seven or nine leaflets, and a thin-shelled very bitter nut

called also bitter hickory, bitter pignut, swamp hickory

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