carya aquatica

1. 1.

   hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts

   Synonymswater hickorybitter pecanwater bitternut

   Broaderhickory

   Part ofCarya

Questions about carya aquatica

What does carya aquatica mean?

carya aquatica means "hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts".

What is another word for carya aquatica?

Close synonyms include water hickory, bitter pecan, water bitternut. 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 carya aquatica a common word?

carya aquatica 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.