noun
smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
• Syn: ↑mockernut hickory, ↑black hickory, ↑white-heart hickory, ↑big-bud hickory, ↑Carya tomentosa
• Hypernyms: ↑hickory, ↑hickory tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Carya, ↑genus Carya
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun also mockernut hickory : a smooth-barked No. American hickory (Carya tomentosa) with fragrant 7- to 9-foliolate leaves — called also black hickory
2. : the nut of the mockernut tree
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/mok"euhr nut'/, n.
1. a North American hickory, Carya tomentosa, bearing a sweet, edible nut.
2. the nut itself. Also called mockernut hickory.
[1795-1805, Amer.; appar. MOCKER + NUT]
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mockernut /mokˈər-nut/
noun
A kind of hickory nut (Carya tomentosa) with a kernel difficult to extract
Useful english dictionary. 2012.