HICKORY NUT

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Meaning:

Small hard-shelled nut of North American hickory trees especially the shagbark hickories

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Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hickory nut" is a kind of...):

edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)

Holonyms ("hickory nut" is a part of...):

big shagbark; big shellbark; big shellbark hickory; Carya laciniosa; king nut; king nut hickory (hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut)

Carya ovata; shagbark; shagbark hickory; shellbark; shellbark hickory (North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts)