carya

1. Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees;
   United States and China (synset 112340204)
   is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   member holonym:

   • hickory, hickory tree - American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
   • 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
   • carya illinoensis, carya illinoinsis, pecan, pecan tree - tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its 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
   belongs to: family juglandaceae, juglandaceae, walnut family - trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans
   same as: genus carya

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