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Definition of Mockernut
1. Noun. Smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut.
Group relationships: Carya, Genus Carya
Generic synonyms: Hickory, Hickory Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mockernut
Literary usage of Mockernut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Trees, how to Know Them by Clarence Moores Weed (1918)
"THE mockernut OR BIG BUD HICKORY IN summer the easiest way to determine the ...
Like the other Hickories the flowers of the mockernut develop in spring as ..."
2. Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison (1914)
"The color of its bud is a characteristic orange yellow. The bark is of a lighter
shade than the bark of the mockernut hickory FIG. 69. ..."
3. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The mockernut has downy buds in winter—this alone will distinguish it from the
... The bark of the mockernut looks more like that of an ash than a hickory. ..."
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