Crossword-Solution: BITTERNUT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bitternut | n. | The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “BITTERNUT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| E North American hickory tree with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BITTERNUT (5)
The farm was covered with butternut trees, hazel bushes, and a wild hickory called "bitternut." This last is well-named for I have never found an animal other than a squirrel that could endure its nuts.
Contrariwise, even a small green limb of a bitternut-hickory will bear my weight, but an old limb, though several inches thick, becomes so brittle after it is dead for several years that it will break under slight pressure.
The variety is still growing at my farm, grafted on bitternut stocks and although blossoming it has never produced a nut up to this time.
Although they are not as hardy as bitternut stocks, I have found the wild Iowa pecan seedlings satisfactory for grafting after five years' growth.
The Major and Posey pure pecans being incompatible on bitternut hickory roots were grafted on pecan stocks, but they proved to be tender to our winters and the varieties were finally lost.