NOUN
- hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
How To Use bitternut In A Sentence
- _Carya-ovalis_, and the pallid hickory, _Carya pallida_; while two belong to the open bud class, _Apocarya_, the pecan, _Carya pecan_, and the bitternut, _Carya cordiformis_. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
- Terminal buds bear imbricate, scaly buds except in the bitternut hickory which has valvate or foliate buds.
- Black oak, red oak, chinquapin oak, bitternut hickory, and pignut hickory are common near hill summits, where the driest conditions prevail.
- (Carya ovata), L for shellbark (Carya laciniosa), and B for bitternut Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919