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
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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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.