OILNUT

Etymology

Noun

oilnut (plural oilnuts)

Any nut from which oil may be commercially extracted.

The buffalo nut (from Pyrularia oleifera).

Anagrams

• lutino, ultion, utilon

Source: Wiktionary


Oil"nut`, n. (Bot.)

Definition: The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under Buffalo.

Note: The name is also applied to various nuts and seeds yielding oil, as the butternut, cocoanut, oil-palm nut.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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