juglans nigra

Questions about juglans nigra

What does juglans nigra mean?

juglans nigra means "North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut".

What is another word for juglans nigra?

Close synonyms include black walnut, black walnut tree, black 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 juglans nigra a common word?

juglans nigra 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.