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hickory

DEFINITIONS OF: hickory

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n American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts

Synonyms:
hickory tree
Types:
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Carya aquatica, bitter pecan, water bitternut, water hickory
hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts
Carya glabra, black hickory, brown hickory, pignut, pignut hickory
an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
Carya cordiformis, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut, bitternut hickory, swamp hickory
hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
Carya laciniosa, big shagbark, big shellbark, big shellbark hickory, king nut, king nut hickory
hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut
Carya myristicaeformis, Carya myristiciformis, nutmeg hickory
hickory of southern United States and Mexico having hard nutmeg-shaped nuts
Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory
North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts
Carya tomentosa, big-bud hickory, black hickory, mockernut, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory
smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
Type of:
nut tree
tree bearing edible nuts

n valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees

Type of:
wood
the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
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