Definition of hickory Hickory
/hɪˈkɚi/ - [hikeree] - hick•o•ry
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NounPlural: hickories |
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| hickory - American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts | ||
| hickory tree | ||
| nut tree tree bearing edible nuts | ||
| carya, genus carya genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China | ||
| hickory 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 | ||
| brown hickory, carya glabra, pignut, pignut hickory, black 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 | ||
| hickory - valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees | ||
| wood a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; "metal woods are now standard" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hickory (n.)
An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hickory
hik′or-i, n. a genus (Carva) of North American nut-bearing trees, with heavy strong tenacious wood, used for shafts of carriages, handles of axes, &c. [Pohickery; of Indian origin.]
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🔤- hickory, noun, singular of hickories.
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