BLACK HICKORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black hickory mean? 

• BLACK HICKORY (noun)
  The noun BLACK HICKORY has 3 senses:

1. smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut

2. an American hickory tree having bitter nuts

3. North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut

  Familiarity information: BLACK HICKORY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK HICKORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

big-bud hickory; black hickory; Carya tomentosa; mockernut; mockernut hickory; white-heart hickory

Hypernyms ("black hickory" is a kind of...):

hickory; hickory tree (American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts)

Holonyms ("black hickory" is a member of...):

Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An American hickory tree having bitter nuts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black hickory; brown hickory; Carya glabra; pignut; pignut hickory

Hypernyms ("black hickory" is a kind of...):

hickory; hickory tree (American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts)

Holonyms ("black hickory" is a member of...):

Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)

Sense 3

Meaning:

North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black hickory; black walnut; black walnut tree; Juglans nigra

Hypernyms ("black hickory" is a kind of...):

walnut; walnut tree (any of various trees of the genus Juglans)

Meronyms (parts of "black hickory"):

black walnut (American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell)

Holonyms ("black hickory" is a member of...):

genus Juglans; Juglans (type genus of the Juglandaceae)