Definitionn. an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
Last update: June 10, 2015
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The former forests of the state were of two general classes: on the bottom lands along the rivers grew cottonwood, willow, honey-locust, coffee trees, black ash, and elm; on the less heavily wooded uplands were oaks (white, red, yellow and bur), hickory (bitternut and pignut), white and green ash, butternut, ironwood and hackberry. [Please select]
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The thin outer husk of the pignut is not much larger than the nut. [Please select]
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Thus in green wood tested in static bending it varies from 643,000 pounds per square inch for arborvitæ to 1,662,000 pounds for longleaf pine, and 1,769,000 pounds for pignut hickory. [Please select]
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=Pignut= I will italicize the _pignut_ because, though I have never eaten it, I once tried to, and the first taste was all-sufficient. [Please select]
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