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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...
mockernut
A smooth barked North American hickory Carya tomentosa with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard shelled edible nut which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut...
Shagbark
A rough barked species of hickory Carya alba its nut Called also shellbark See Hickory...
Bitternut
The swamp hickory Carya amara Its thin shelled nuts are bitter...
Catkin
An ament a species of inflorescence consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides as in the willow and poplar and as to the staminate flowers in the chestnut oak hickory etc so called from its resemblance to a cats tail See Illust of Ament...
Flexibility
The state or quality of being flexible flexibleness pliancy pliability as the flexibility of strips of hemlock hickory whalebone or metal or of rays of light...
Mattowacca
An American clupeoid fish Clupea mediocris similar to the shad in habits and appearance but smaller and less esteemed for food called also hickory shad tailor shad fall herring and shad herring...
Pacane
A species of hickory See Pecan...
Pecan
A species of hickory Carya olivaeligformis growing in North America chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas where it is one of the largest of forest trees also its fruit a smooth oblong nut an inch or an inch and a half long with a thin shell and well flavored meat...
Pinnate
Consisting of several leaflets or separate portions arranged on each side of a common petiole as the leaves of a rosebush a hickory or an ash See Abruptly pinnate and Illust under Abruptly...
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