bitternut hickory

Questions about bitternut hickory

What does bitternut hickory mean?

bitternut hickory means "hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts".

What is another word for bitternut hickory?

Close synonyms include bitternut, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, swamp hickory, Carya cordiformis. 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 bitternut hickory a common word?

bitternut hickory 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.