Buffalo nut Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood
    elk nut; oil nut.
  2. noun shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes
    Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), the oily and drupelike fruit of an American shrub (Pyrularia oleifera); also, the shrub itself; oilnut.

Webster 1913