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Hickory

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.

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Bitternut 76% connected

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

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Pignut 76% connected

See Groundnut (d).

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Shagbark 76% connected

A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory.

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Shellbark 76% connected

A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.

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Wood 76% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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