king nut hickory

Questions about king nut hickory

What does king nut hickory mean?

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

What is another word for king nut hickory?

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

king nut hickory 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.