NOUN
- American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell
- North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
How To Use black walnut In A Sentence
- Clear information boards indicate the location of different types of trees which include Persian, Japanese and black walnut trees, coastal and dawn redwoods, cedar of Lebanon, atlas and deodar cedars, and swamp cypresses.
- Native upland vegetation is probably mixed oak forests and beech-oak forests; white and black oaks along with American beech, pignut and mockernut hickories, black walnut, tulip tree, and red maple once occurred. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
- That black walnut tree that stands so fruitful over his birthplace still speaks of the heartiness of American stock and the legacy the Earps left behind. - Jeff Meyer
- Noon found Tom far out on the National Road, creaking along over the yellow dust in a light wagon, between bordering forests that smelt spicily of wet underbrush and May-apples; and, here and there, when they would emerge from the woods to cleared fields, liberally outlined by long snake-fences of black walnut, the steady, jog-trotting old horse lifted his head and looked interested in the world, but Tom never did either. The Two Vanrevels
- Other less prominent tree types included various hickories, other ash species, white oak, black walnut, butternut, basswood, yellow buckeye, elm, black cherry, black gum, and tulip tree.
- Our people ask questions about the right kind of soils for the nuts -- what varieties are best suited for Pennsylvania -- how to topwork their standing black walnut -- and, in fact, almost any question. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915
- Floodplain forests of bottomlands are dominated by sycamore, black walnut, Kentucky coffeetree, sugarberry, and honey locust. Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA)
- Included in our reforestation has been a liberal scattering of black walnut. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
- You correctly point out that the Black Walnut has compound leaves but then incorrectly identify the leaflets as leaves, and call a tendril what is actually the rachis of the leaf. Eric peters
- So growers fused English walnut grafts onto the black walnut rootstock when trees reached a certain age.