hickory tree

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hickory tree - American hardwood tree bearing edible nutshickoryCarya, genus Carya - genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and Chinahickory - valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory treesbitter pecan, Carya aquatica, water bitternut, water hickory - hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nutsbrown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut, pignut hickory, black hickory - an American hickory tree having bitter nutsbitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory - hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nutsbig shagbark, big shellbark, big shellbark hickory, Carya laciniosa, king nut, king nut hickory - hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nutCarya myristicaeformis, Carya myristiciformis, nutmeg hickory - hickory of southern United States and Mexico having hard nutmeg-shaped nutsCarya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory - North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nutsbig-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory - smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nutnut tree - tree bearing edible nuts