Found 2 items, similar to Carya glabra.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Carya glabra
Carya glabra
n : an American hickory tree having bitter nuts [syn:
pignut,
pignut hickory,
brown hickory,
black hickory]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Carya glabra
Pignut
\Pig"nut\ (p[i^]g"n[u^]t), n. (Bot.)
(a) See
Groundnut
(d) .
(b) The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (
Carya glabra
syn.
Carya porcina); also, the tree itself.
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Hickory
\Hick"o*ry\, n. [North American Indian pawcohiccora
(Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from
pounded hickory nuts.
“Pohickory” is named in a list of
Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to
“hickory.” --J. H. Trumbull.] (Bot.)
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.
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Hickory shad. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The mattowacca, or fall herring.
(b) The gizzard shad.
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