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    BITTERNUT HICKORY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nutsplay

    Synonyms:

    bitter hickory; bitter pignut; bitternut; bitternut hickory; Carya cordiformis; swamp hickory

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    hickory; hickory tree (American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts)

    Holonyms ("bitternut hickory" is a member of...):

    Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)

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