carya cordiformis

Questions about carya cordiformis

What does carya cordiformis mean?

carya cordiformis 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 carya cordiformis?

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

carya cordiformis 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.