Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of various nuts and seeds yielding oil, and the plant producing them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under
buffalo .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
nut from whichoil may be commerciallyextracted - noun The buffalo nut (nut of Pyrularia oleifera)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
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With a stout string he drew his cannon up to the large oilnut tree, and then with a real bayonet fixed to a wooden gun, he would lie at full length under the shade, calling himself a sharpshooter guarding the cannon.
Captain Horace Sophie May 1869
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