bitter pignut

Questions about bitter pignut

What does bitter pignut mean?

bitter pignut means "hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts".

What is another word for bitter pignut?

Close synonyms include bitternut, bitternut hickory, bitter hickory, swamp hickory, Carya cordiformis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bitter pignut a common word?

bitter pignut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.