carya illinoinsis

1. 1.

   tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts

   Synonymspecanpecan treeCarya illinoensis

   Broadernut tree

   Part ofCarya

   Partspecan

Questions about carya illinoinsis

What does carya illinoinsis mean?

carya illinoinsis means "tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts".

What is another word for carya illinoinsis?

Close synonyms include pecan, pecan tree, Carya illinoensis. 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 illinoinsis a common word?

carya illinoinsis 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.