Definition of "nut-bearing" [nut-bearing]

• (of shrubs or trees) producing nuts (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Most of the uplands consisted of cleared farmland with patches of brush and nut-bearing trees around scattered farmsteads."
• "Sunlight is the priority for mature, nut-bearing trees."
• "A story goes that once in the twilight undergrowth of a forest of nut-bearing trees a number of little purblind creatures wandered, singing for nuts."