black hickory

Noun

• North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut

• an American hickory tree having bitter nuts

• smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  black walnut , black walnut tree , Juglans nigra , pignut , pignut hickory , brown hickory , Carya glabra , mockernut , mockernut hickory , white-heart hickory , big-bud hickory , Carya tomentosa