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BUFFALO NUT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes

Synonyms:

buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("buffalo nut" is a kind of...):

parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)

Meronyms (parts of "buffalo nut"):

buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut (oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood)

Holonyms ("buffalo nut" is a member of...):

genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia (small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood

Synonyms:

buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("buffalo nut" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("buffalo nut" is a part of...):

buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood (shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes)

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