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BUFFALO NUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does buffalo nut mean?
• BUFFALO NUT (noun)
The noun BUFFALO NUT has 2 senses:
1. oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
2. shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes
Familiarity information: BUFFALO NUT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("buffalo nut" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
Holonyms ("buffalo nut" is a part of...):
buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood (shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood
Hypernyms ("buffalo nut" is a kind of...):
parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)
Meronyms (parts of "buffalo nut"):
buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut (oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood)
Holonyms ("buffalo nut" is a member of...):
genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia (small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs)
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