hickory

1. Valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees (synset 112340802)
   is a type of: wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
   substance meronym: hickory, hickory tree - American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
2. American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts (synset 112340527)
   is a type of: nut tree - tree bearing edible nuts
   subtypes:

   • 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
   belongs to: carya, genus carya - genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China
   substance holonym: hickory - valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees
   same as: hickory tree

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