What is 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 called?
oilnut — 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. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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