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    CARYA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and Chinaplay

    Synonyms:

    Carya; genus Carya

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Carya" is a kind of...):

    dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "Carya"):

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

    bitter pecan; Carya aquatica; water bitternut; water hickory (hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts)

    black hickory; brown hickory; Carya glabra; pignut; pignut hickory (an American hickory tree having bitter nuts)

    bitter hickory; bitter pignut; bitternut; bitternut hickory; Carya cordiformis; swamp hickory (hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts)

    Carya illinoensis; Carya illinoinsis; pecan; pecan tree (tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts)

    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 myristicaeformis; Carya myristiciformis; nutmeg hickory (hickory of southern United States and Mexico having hard nutmeg-shaped nuts)

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

    big-bud hickory; black hickory; Carya tomentosa; mockernut; mockernut hickory; white-heart hickory (smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut)

    Holonyms ("Carya" is a member of...):

    family Juglandaceae; Juglandaceae; walnut family (trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans)

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