Found 3 hits - Term: carya alba, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shagbark \shag"bark`\, n. bot.
a rough-barked species of hickory carya alba, its nut.
called also shellbark. see hickory.
b the west indian pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous
tree with a red coiled-up pod.
1913 webster
see also:
carya alba shellbark hickory pithecolobium micradenium
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shellbark \shell"bark`\, n. bot.
a species of hickory carya alba whose outer bark is loose
and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
1913 webster
see also:
carya alba
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hickory \hick"ory\, n. north american indian pawcohiccora
capt. j. smith a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from
pounded hickory nuts. "pohickory" is named in a list of
virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to
"hickory." --j. h. trumbull. bot.
an american tree of the genus carya, of which there are
several species. the shagbark is the carya alba, and has a
very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets.
the pignut, or brown hickory, is the carya glabra. the
swamp hickory is carya amara, having a nut whose shell is
very thin and the kernel bitter.
1913 webster
hickory shad. zool.
a the mattowacca, or fall herring.
b the gizzard shad.
1913 webster
see also:
carya carya alba carya glabra carya amara hickory shad
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