Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Either of two hickory trees (Carya glabra or C. ovalis) of the eastern United States, having nuts with somewhat bitter kernels.
- noun The nut of either of these trees.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hawknut . - noun The fruit of a North American tree, the brown hickory, Hicoria glabra (Carya porcina); also, the tree itself.
- noun The fruit of Omphalea triandra and O. diandra, of the West Indies and South America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
groundnut (d). - noun The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (
Carya glabra syn.Carya porcina ); also, the tree itself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The edible
tuber of Conopodium majus, native to western Europe. - noun US Any of various types of
hickory or their fruits; ahognut .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
Etymologies
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Examples
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So long as it already covers two species in the North as opposed to one in the South, there are already two votes to one in favor of retaining the name pignut for Carya glabra and Carya ovalis.
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Heavy doses of nitrogen fertiliser will tip the competitive balance in favour of grasses, and soon purple wood crane's bill, blood-red greater burnet, frothy white pignut and meadowsweet, yellow lady's bedstraw, globe flower and blue speedwells will vanish, leaving an "improved" pasture – more productive, more profitable, but oh-so dull.
Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates 2011
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The meadows sway with flowers and sashaying grasses, and sooty black chimney sweeper moths rise up, flying low among pignut plants – their larval food plant.
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The meadows sway with flowers and sashaying grasses, and sooty black chimney sweeper moths rise up, flying low among pignut plants – their larval food plant.
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Native upland vegetation is probably mixed oak forests and beech-oak forests; white and black oaks along with American beech, pignut and mockernut hickories, black walnut, tulip tree, and red maple once occurred.
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Dry upland forests contain blackjack oak, post oak, scarlet oak, pignut hickory, and white oak.
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Angelica is an umbellifer, like carrot, pignut and hemlock.
Coffee Fads « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2006
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The island and mainland slopes are covered with deciduous forest, with abundant red oak, chestnut oak and pignut hickory.
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York 2008
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This temperate deciduous oak-hickory forest is dominated by oaks including white, black and chestnut oaks, Quercus alba, Q. velutina, Q. prinus and hickories including pignut and mockernut, Carya glabra and C. tomentosa with some beech Fagus sp., maples Acer spp., tulip tree Liriodendron tulipifera, ash Fraxinus sp. and eastern red cedar Juniperus virginiana.
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Common hardwoods of the oak-hickory association include scarlet, post, and blackjack oaks (Quercus coccinea, Q. stellata, and Q. marilandica, respectively), and pignut and mockernut hickories (Careya glabra and C. tomentosa).
hernesheir commented on the word pignut
There is a gnu inside every pignut.
March 3, 2010
bilby commented on the word pignut
In The Tempest (act ii, sc. 2, 171), Caliban, the deformed son of a witch, implores Stephano, the drunken butler;
I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow.
And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts,
Show thee a jay’s nest, and instruct thee how
To snare the nimble marmoset. I’ll bring thee
To clustering filberts, and sometimes I’ll get thee
Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
February 24, 2025