noun
hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
• Syn: ↑bitternut, ↑bitter hickory, ↑bitter pignut, ↑swamp hickory, ↑Carya cordiformis
• Hypernyms: ↑hickory, ↑hickory tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Carya, ↑genus Carya
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nounsee bitternut
Useful english dictionary. 2012.