white-heart hickory

Questions about white-heart hickory

What does white-heart hickory mean?

white-heart hickory means "smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut".

What is another word for white-heart hickory?

Close synonyms include mockernut, mockernut hickory, black hickory, big-bud hickory, Carya tomentosa. 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 white-heart hickory a common word?

white-heart 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.