CARYA CORDIFORMIS

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Meaning:

Hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts

Synonyms:

bitter hickory; bitter pignut; bitternut; bitternut hickory; Carya cordiformis; swamp hickory

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Carya cordiformis" is a kind of...):

hickory; hickory tree (American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts)

Holonyms ("Carya cordiformis" is a member of...):

Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)

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