carya ovata

Questions about carya ovata

What does carya ovata mean?

carya ovata means "North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts".

What is another word for carya ovata?

Close synonyms include shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark 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 ovata a common word?

carya ovata 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.