buffalo nut

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
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

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buffalo nut,
1. the oily nut of a North American shrub, related to sandalwood.
2. the shrub it grows on.

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  • Buffalo cod — Buffalo Buf fa*lo, n.; pl. {Buffaloes}. [Sp. bufalo (cf. It. bufalo, F. buffle), fr. L. bubalus, bufalus, a kind of African stag or gazelle; also, the buffalo or wild ox, fr. Gr. ? buffalo, prob. fr. ? ox. See {Cow} the animal, and cf. {Buff} the …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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