Mockernut is a 9 letter English word.
You can make 418 anagrams from letters in mockernut (cekmnortu).
1795-1805, Americanism; apparently mocker + nut
Elsewhere the pignut and the mockernut are called "hickory."
There are three other nuts that I know do well on the mockernut.
The pignut and the mockernut hickories are found in the southern hardwood belt along Lake Erie.
I should reply that the chestnut leads the list, followed closely by the mockernut hickory.
This makes it of value for there are few of our named hickories that will do well when grafted on the mockernut.
In 1933 I top-worked a mockernut with ten grafts of the Barnes.
Other characters: The bark is close like that of the mockernut hickory.
One graft of Fox on mockernut lived and has continued to grow fairly well.
mockernut leaves are large, downy, yellow-green, turning to gold in autumn.
The superior size of the fruit and the smallness of the kernel probably give rise to the common name, "mockernut."
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