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Nut-bearing

adjective

(of shrubs or trees) producing nuts.

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"Nut-bearing" Quotes from Famous Books

... shall encourage the planting of shade tree types along public highways, and avoid the above described difficulties that are bound to occur if nut-bearing types of trees are ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... to train the limbs in seven or eight feet all round to be able to double the number of trees to the acre. Then train the trees skyward and increase the number of nut-bearing boughs, and the yield will be increased accordingly. If the nuts on the higher branches fill as well as on the lower, the tree can not be made to grow too high, because we have no violent storms to throw down the trees, and the nuts are ...

— Walnut Growing in Oregon • Various

... abundant than in the valley. The oaks and hickory trees bore an abundance of nuts for them. Further on the nut-bearing trees gave place to grass, and they found themselves ...

— The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; A Century Too Soon (A Story - of Bacon's Rebellion) • John R. Musick

Words linked to "Nut-bearing" : productive