king nut

Questions about king nut

What does king nut mean?

king nut means "hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut".

What is another word for king nut?

Close synonyms include big shellbark, big shellbark hickory, big shagbark, king nut hickory, Carya laciniosa. 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 king nut a common word?

king nut is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.