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HICKORY NUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hickory nut mean?
• HICKORY NUT (noun)
The noun HICKORY NUT has 1 sense:
1. small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories
Familiarity information: HICKORY NUT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("hickory nut" is a kind of...):
edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)
Holonyms ("hickory nut" is a part of...):
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 ovata; shagbark; shagbark hickory; shellbark; shellbark hickory (North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts)
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