Word Meanings - BITTERNUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

• AMARANTHUSAMARANTUS
  Same as Amaranth.
• Shelling
  of Shell
• BITTERSPAR
  A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
• Bitterness
  The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
• Shell-lac
  Alt. of Shellac
• CARYATICCARYATID
  Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
• Bitternut
  The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
• SHELLACSHELLLAC
  See the Note under 2d Lac.
• Bitterroot
  A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'l
• Shellapple
  See Sheldafle.
• SHELLLESS
  , a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.
• Amarantaceous
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the amaranth is the type.
• Shellbark
  A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.

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