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ELK NUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does elk nut mean?
• ELK NUT (noun)
The noun ELK NUT has 1 sense:
1. oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
Familiarity information: ELK NUT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut
Hypernyms ("elk nut" is a kind of...):
fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)
Holonyms ("elk 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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