bitter pecan

Questions about bitter pecan

What is another word for bitter pecan?

It depends which bitter pecan you mean. In the sense “hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts”, the synonyms are water hickory, water bitternut, Carya aquatica. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of bitter pecan?

WordNet records no antonym for bitter pecan. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for bitter pecan come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of bitter pecan

• Full entry for bitter pecanAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for bitter pecanWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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