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BROWN HICKORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brown hickory mean?
• BROWN HICKORY (noun)
The noun BROWN HICKORY has 1 sense:
1. an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
Familiarity information: BROWN HICKORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An American hickory tree having bitter nuts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
black hickory; brown hickory; Carya glabra; pignut; pignut hickory
Hypernyms ("brown hickory" is a kind of...):
hickory; hickory tree (American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts)
Holonyms ("brown hickory" is a member of...):
Carya; genus Carya (genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China)
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