Mockernut (Noun)
Meaning
Smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Mockernut hickory trees are prized for their strong, durable wood, as well as their edible nuts.
- The hard-shelled mockernut, also known as bigleaf shagbark, has seven to nine leaflets.
- After shelling, mockernuts have a distinctive triangular or egg-shaped form with pointed tip and bases that can vary from tapering to quite sharp.
- At some mature forests the sugar maple and yellow birch have overtaken the mockernut, shagbark hickory and bitternut.
- Native Americans were particularly fond of the seeds, which are also known as mockernuts, of the hickory tree, boiling them to prepare them for winter storage.