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ˈhog-nut
1. U.S. The fruit of the Broom Hickory, Carya porcina; also the tree.
1829Loudon Encycl. Plants 794 The Americans make very good and durable brooms by slitting into narrow slips the very tough wood of Juglans glabra, which is called pig or hog-nut, also broom hickory. 1866Treas. Bot. 228/2 The Pig or Hog-nut, or Broom Hickory, C[arya] porcina, is a noble tree seventy or eighty feet high.
2. The Earth-nut or Pig-nut, Bunium flexuosum.
1771Warner Plantæ Woodfordienses 20 Hawk-nut, or rather Hog-nut. 1879in Prior Plant-n. |