hognut

English

Etymology

hog +‎ nut

Noun

hognut (plural hognuts)

  1. (US) The pignut or hickory (Carya glabra of family Juglandaceae).
  2. (Britain) Conopodium majus, a tuberous plant of the Apiaceae.
  3. Bunium bulbocastanum (black cumin) of the Apiaceae.
  4. Certain rushpeas, particularly Hoffmannseggia glauca (syn. Hoffmannseggia densiflora) Indian rushpea, of the Fabaceae.
  5. Hyptis suaveolens of the Lamiaceae.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hognut in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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