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What is a bitternut?

What is a bitternut? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, a common hickory tree native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada.
  2. Its fruit, a bitter nut sometimes used as feed for livestock.
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The bitternut, or Swamp Hickory, has a kernel which is very bitter.
Terminal buds bear imbricate, scaly buds except in the bitternut hickory which has valvate or foliate buds.
The Pleas is a bitternut hybrid and has some bitterness in the kernel, but no more than the English walnut and people like it.
Black oak, red oak, chinquapin oak, bitternut hickory, and pignut hickory are common near hill summits, where the driest conditions prevail.
None of them that I have tried to graft will live on bitternut roots.
The nuts are not of very good quality, like most bitternut hybrids.

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