A plant, likely a type of thistle or similar weed, possibly identified by burned or darkened features.
Compound of burn + nut, possibly referring to a nut-like seed or fruit with a burnt appearance, though the exact botanical reference is uncertain.
Historical plant names often combine simple descriptive words in ways that seem random to us now—'burnut' probably made perfect sense to farmers who knew the plant, but we've lost that context.
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