noun
hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
• Syn: ↑bitternut, ↑bitternut hickory, ↑bitter hickory, ↑bitter pignut, ↑Carya cordiformis
• Hypernyms: ↑hickory, ↑hickory tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Carya, ↑genus Carya
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noun1. : bitternut
2. : water hickory
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swamp hickory,
a species of hickory that grows in swamps and bears nuts with a bitter kernel; bitternut.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.