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buffalo nut

noun

1. oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood

• Syn: ↑elk nut, ↑oil nut

• Hypernyms: ↑fruit

• Part Holonyms: ↑rabbitwood, ↑Pyrularia pubera

2. shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes

• Syn: ↑rabbitwood, ↑Pyrularia pubera

• Hypernyms: ↑parasitic plant

• Member Holonyms: ↑Pyrularia, ↑genus Pyrularia

• Part Meronyms: ↑elk nut, ↑oil nut

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noun

1. : the oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood — called also elk nut, oil nut

2. : rabbitwood

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buffalo nut,

1. the oily nut of a North American shrub, related to sandalwood.

2. the shrub it grows on.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.