hickory nut

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   small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories

   Broaderedible nut

   Part ofshagbarkbig shellbark

Questions about hickory nut

What does hickory nut mean?

hickory nut means "small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories".

Is hickory nut a common word?

hickory nut 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.