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HICKORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
Synonyms:
hickory; hickory tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("hickory" is a kind of...):
nut tree (tree bearing edible nuts)
Meronyms (substance of "hickory"):
hickory (valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hickory"):
bitter pecan; Carya aquatica; water bitternut; water hickory (hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts)
black hickory; brown hickory; Carya glabra; pignut; pignut hickory (an American hickory tree having bitter nuts)
bitter 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 nuts)
big 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 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)
big-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 nut)
Holonyms ("hickory" is a member of...):
Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("hickory" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("hickory" is a substance of...):
hickory; hickory tree (American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts)
