Bitternut \Bit"ter*nut"\, n. (Bot.)
The swamp hickory ({Carya amara}). Its thin-shelled nuts are
bitter.
bitternut
n : hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7
or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts [syn: {bitternut
hickory}, {bitter hickory}, {bitter pignut}, {swamp
hickory}, {Carya cordiformis}]