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Bitternut   Listen
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Bitternut  n.  (Bot.) The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.






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"Bitternut" Quotes from Famous Books



... carried in by any sort of insect, I made check experiments last year, covering pistillate flowers so carefully that there could be no question about their having received no pollen. It was found that the chinkapin would develop nuts freely in this way, and that the bitternut hickory, shagbark hickory, and pignut (Hicoria glabra) would develop nuts sparingly ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting - Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913 • Various



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