Pignuts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 177 anagrams from letters in pignuts (ginpstu).
First recorded in 1600-10; pig1 + nut
Country boys scorn the pignut trees, leaving their fruit for eager but unsophisticated nut-gatherers from the towns.
Grafts of all other varieties which were on the pignut stocks died the next spring.
The pignut deserves the better name, "smooth hickory," a more ingratiating introduction to strangers.
Pig hickory or pignut are names used in several states, but without good reason.
The thin outer husk of the pignut is not much larger than the nut.
It appears that the pignut hickory is the most easily affected.
As a name for this tree, smooth hickory would be preferable to pignut.
For my part, I never fail to show him the pignut hickory where my first golden-winged warbler spoke to me one May morning.
Elsewhere the pignut and the mockernut are called "hickory."
The grafts of Davis grew on pignut stocks, are still alive and doing fairly well.