Definitions for pignut

pignut pig·nut

Spelling: [pig-nuht]
IPA: /ˈpɪgˌnʌt/

Pignut is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in pignut (ginptu).

Definitions for pignut

noun

  1. the nut of the brown hickory, Carya glabra, of North America.
  2. the tree itself.
  3. the tuber of a European plant, Conopodium denudatum.

Origin of pignut

First recorded in 1600-10; pig1 + nut

Examples for pignut

The grafts of Davis grew on pignut stocks, are still alive and doing fairly well.

The thin outer husk of the pignut is not much larger than the nut.

Elsewhere the pignut and the mockernut are called "hickory."

Country boys scorn the pignut trees, leaving their fruit for eager but unsophisticated nut-gatherers from the towns.

Pig hickory or pignut are names used in several states, but without good reason.

For my part, I never fail to show him the pignut hickory where my first golden-winged warbler spoke to me one May morning.

The pignut deserves the better name, "smooth hickory," a more ingratiating introduction to strangers.

It appears that the pignut hickory is the most easily affected.

Grafts of all other varieties which were on the pignut stocks died the next spring.

As a name for this tree, smooth hickory would be preferable to pignut.

Word Value for pignut
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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