Definitions for: Hickory


[n] American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
[n] valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees



Webster (1913) Definition: 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 C. alba, and has a
very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets.
The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp
hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin
and the kernel bitter.

Hickory shad. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The mattowacca, or fall herring.
(b) The gizzard shad.

Synonyms: hickory tree

See Also: big shagbark, big shellbark, big shellbark hickory, big-bud hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pecan, bitter pignut, bitternut, bitternut hickory, black hickory, brown hickory, Carya, Carya aquatica, Carya cordiformis, Carya glabra, Carya laciniosa, Carya myristicaeformis, Carya myristiciformis, Carya ovata, Carya tomentosa, genus Carya, hickory, king nut, king nut hickory, mockernut, mockernut hickory, nut tree, nutmeg hickory, pignut, pignut hickory, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory, swamp hickory, water bitternut, water hickory, white-heart hickory, wood

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