Crossword-Solution: PIGNUT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pignut | n. | See Groundnut (d). |
| Pignut | n. | The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (Carya glabra, / porcina); also, the tree itself. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PIGNUT | anagram | GUNPIT |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PIGNUT (5)
Six kinds of clovers and vetches; and besides, dandelion, and rattle, and oxeye, and sorrel, and plantain, and buttercup, and a little stitchwort, and pignut, and mouse-ear hawkweed, too, which nobody wants.
Next to smell came taste, and the children knew the taste of everything they saw or touched, from pennyroyal and flagroot to the shell of a pignut and the letters of a spelling-book--the taste of A-B, AB, suddenly revived on the boy's tongue sixty years afterwards.
Comparisons: The _pignut hickory_ (_Hicoria glabra_), sometimes called broom hickory or brown hickory, often has a shaggy bark, but differs from both the shagbark and the mockernut hickory in possessing buds very much smaller, twigs more slender and leaflets fewer.
The pignut being of little value as far as the nuts are concerned, yet having smaller and possibly more luxuriant foliage than the shagbark or shellbark.
The shagbark hickory, in my experience, has done best upon stocks of the shagbark or mockernut or pignut.