OIL NUT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood

Synonyms:

buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("oil nut" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("oil nut" is a part of...):

buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood (shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes)

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