(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:34:00

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.

 

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