= hickory, n. 1a. Obsolete.

U.S. Any of several kinds of hickory (genus Carya), esp. the broom hickory, C. glabra, and the closely related C. ovalis (more fully pignut hickory…

Any of the trees comprising the genus Carya (family Juglandaceae), native to North America, China, and southeast Asia and having tough, heavy…

= sense 1.

U.S. A variety of hickory, n.; also the wood or the nut of this tree. Also attributive or adj. as a designation of this tree.

short for shell-bark hickory (occasionally shell-bark walnut), a North American tree, Carya (formerly Juglans) ovata, having a rough shaggy bark…

the shagbark hickory, Carya ovata, or its edible nuts; cf. hickory, n. 1.

the water hickory, Carya aquatica, or the bitternut hickory, C. cordiformis.

North American. The pignut hickory, Carya glabra (more fully hognut hickory); (also) the nut produced by this tree. Cf. pignut, n. 2.

A hickory tree. Also: a hickory nut.

a hickory tree of the southern United States, Carya aquatica, which typically grows near rivers.

a hickory of southern North America, Carya myristicaeformis, bearing a fruit which resembles a nutmeg.

†(a) the mockernut, Carya tomentosa (obsolete); (b) a large species of shellbark or shagbark hickory, Carya laciniosa.