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 hickory In A Sentence
- 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.