mocker nut

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mocker nut - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  mockernut \mockernut\, mocker nut \mocker nut\n.
     1. (Bot.), A smooth-barked North American hickory (Carya  tomentosa
        ) with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled
        edible nut, which is far inferior to the true shagbark
        hickory nut.
  
     Syn: mockernut hickory, black hickory, white-heart hickory,
          big-bud hickory, Carya tomentosa .
          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. The fruit of the mockernut[1].
        [PJC]