Definitions
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- adjective (of shrubs or trees) producing nuts
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Examples
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Most of the uplands consisted of cleared farmland with patches of brush and nut-bearing trees around scattered farmsteads.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Most of the uplands consisted of cleared farmland with patches of brush and nut-bearing trees around scattered farmsteads.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Sunlight is the priority for mature, nut-bearing trees.
Turning Land into Whitetail Habitat Without Planting a Food Plot 2007
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A story goes that once in the twilight undergrowth of a forest of nut-bearing trees a number of little purblind creatures wandered, singing for nuts.
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Walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and pine nuts all have both Old World and New World species, because nut-bearing trees have been around a lot longer than the other food plants, long enough that they existed before North America and Europe split apart some 60 million years ago.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Walnuts, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and pine nuts all have both Old World and New World species, because nut-bearing trees have been around a lot longer than the other food plants, long enough that they existed before North America and Europe split apart some 60 million years ago.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Look for eastern chipmunks—in mature forests of birch, maple, and nut-bearing trees.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Look for eastern chipmunks—in mature forests of birch, maple, and nut-bearing trees.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Look for eastern chipmunks—in mature forests of birch, maple, and nut-bearing trees.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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I believe that the moment is opportune for advocating an effort to cultivate all kinds of edible and otherwise useful nut-bearing trees and shrubs adapted to the soil and climate of the United States, thereby inaugurating a great, permanent and far-reaching industry.
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