Oil″nut′ (?), n.(Bot.) The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under Buffalo.
☞ The name is also applied to various nuts and seeds yielding oil, as the butternut, cocoanut, oil-palm nut.
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Oil″nut′ (?), n.(Bot.) The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under Buffalo.
☞ The name is also applied to various nuts and seeds yielding oil, as the butternut, cocoanut, oil-palm nut.