ˈhog-nut
1. U.S. The fruit of the Broom Hickory, Carya porcina; also the tree.
| 1829 Loudon Encycl. Plants 794 The Americans make very good and durable brooms by slitting into narrow slips the very tough wood of Juglans glabra, which is called pig or hog-nut, also broom hickory. 1866 Treas. Bot. 228/2 The Pig or Hog-nut, or Broom Hickory, C[arya] porcina, is a noble tree seventy or eighty feet high. |
2. The Earth-nut or Pig-nut, Bunium flexuosum.
| 1771 Warner Plantæ Woodfordienses 20 Hawk-nut, or rather Hog-nut. 1879 in Prior Plant-n. |