big shellbark

Questions about big shellbark

What does big shellbark mean?

big shellbark means "hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut".

What is another word for big shellbark?

Close synonyms include big shellbark hickory, big shagbark, king nut, king nut hickory, Carya laciniosa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is big shellbark a common word?

big shellbark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.