hickory tree

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   American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts

   Synonymshickory

   Broadernut tree

   Narrowerwater hickorypignutbitternutbig shellbarknutmeg hickoryshagbarkmockernut

   Part ofCarya

Questions about hickory tree

What does hickory tree mean?

hickory tree means "American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts".

What is another word for hickory tree?

Close synonyms include 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 hickory tree a common word?

hickory tree 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.