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Carya glabra
(gcide) | Pignut \Pig"nut\ (p[i^]g"n[u^]t), n. (Bot.)
(a) See Groundnut
(d) .
(b) The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory ({Carya
glabra} syn. Carya porcina); also, the tree itself.
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Carya glabra
(gcide) | Hickory \Hick"o*ry\, n. [North American Indian pawcohiccora
(Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from
pounded hickory nuts. "Pohickory" is named in a list of
Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to
"hickory." --J. H. Trumbull.] (Bot.)
An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are
several species. The shagbark is the Carya alba, and has a
very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets.
The pignut, or brown hickory, is the Carya glabra. The
swamp hickory is Carya amara, having a nut whose shell is
very thin and the kernel bitter.
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Hickory shad. (Zool.)
(a) The mattowacca, or fall herring.
(b) The gizzard shad.
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carya glabra
(wn) | Carya glabra
n 1: an American hickory tree having bitter nuts [syn: pignut,
pignut hickory, brown hickory, black hickory, {Carya
glabra}] |
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Carya glabra
(gcide) | Pignut \Pig"nut\ (p[i^]g"n[u^]t), n. (Bot.)
(a) See Groundnut
(d) .
(b) The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory ({Carya
glabra} syn. Carya porcina); also, the tree itself.
[1913 Webster]Hickory \Hick"o*ry\, n. [North American Indian pawcohiccora
(Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from
pounded hickory nuts. "Pohickory" is named in a list of
Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to
"hickory." --J. H. Trumbull.] (Bot.)
An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are
several species. The shagbark is the Carya alba, and has a
very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets.
The pignut, or brown hickory, is the Carya glabra. The
swamp hickory is Carya amara, having a nut whose shell is
very thin and the kernel bitter.
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Hickory shad. (Zool.)
(a) The mattowacca, or fall herring.
(b) The gizzard shad.
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