swamp hickory

Questions about swamp hickory

What does swamp hickory mean?

swamp hickory means "hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts".

What is another word for swamp hickory?

Close synonyms include bitternut, bitternut hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, Carya cordiformis. 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 swamp hickory a common word?

swamp 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.