bitternut

Other forms of bitternut

plural

bitternuts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bitternut

What does bitternut mean?

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

How many syllables are in bitternut?

bitternut has 3 syllables and divides as bit-ter-nut under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bitternut?

Close synonyms include bitternut hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, 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 bitternut a common word?

bitternut is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.