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ˈpig-nut
[f. pig n.1 + nut.]
1. The tuber of Bunium flexuosum; = earth-nut 1.
1610Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 172, I with my long nayles will digge thee pig-nuts. 1693Robinson in Phil. Trans. XVII. 826 The Roots..commonly call'd Kepper-Nuts, Pignuts and Gernuts in the North, lie very deep, and fatten Hogs. 1711Addison Spect. No. 69 ⁋5 No Fruit grows Originally among us, besides Hips and Haws, Acorns and Pig-Nutts. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. (1886) 277 Dig away, boys,..you'll find some pig-nuts.
†2. Applied to an acorn (with reference to Don Quixote ch. xi). Obs. nonce-use.
1711E. Ward Quix. I. 373 At length the Don in Pensive Mood His Golden Pignuts [i.e. acorns, as eaten in the Golden Age] gravely view'd.
3. N. Amer. The small pear-shaped nut of the broom hickory, Carya glabra, or the closely related species, Carya ovalis; also, the trees themselves, which belong to the family Juglandaceæ; = hog-nut 1. Also attrib.
1666Early Rec. Warwick, Rhode Island (1926) 323 Upon a straight lyne from the pond to a pignut tree standing upon a hill. 1705R. Beverley Hist. Virginia ii. iv. 16 There are also several Sorts of Hickories, call'd Pig-nuts. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 322 Pig Nut, Juglans. 1785H. Marshall Arbustrum Amer. 68 White, or Pig-nut Hickery [sic]{ddd}generally grows pretty large. 1829[see hog-nut 1]. 1832D. J. Browne Sylva Amer. 183 The pignut hickory is one of the largest trees of the American forest. 1866[see hog-nut 1]. 1884Miller Plant-n., Pig-nut, American, Carya porcina. 1908N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 237 Pignut hickory... A tree of drier ground than that in which most other hickories grow. 1969T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 98/2 The pignut..occurs as a native in dryish soils from New York to Missouri and Florida. Ibid., The closely related sweet pignut..differs in that its leaves have seven leaflets rather than the usual five. |