English > Carya: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China. |
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| Synonym | genus Carya |
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| Member of | Juglandaceae, family Juglandaceae, walnut family | Trees having usually edible nuts |
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| Members | big shellbark, big shellbark hickory, big shagbark, king nut, king nut hickory, Carya laciniosa | hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger / larger nut |
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| bitternut, bitternut hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, swamp hickory, Carya cordiformis | hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts |
| hickory, hickory tree | American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts |
| mockernut, mockernut hickory, black hickory, white-heart hickory, big-bud hickory, Carya tomentosa | Smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut |
| nutmeg hickory, Carya myristicaeformis, Carya myristiciformis | hickory of southern United States and Mexico having hard nutmeg-shaped nuts |
| pecan, pecan tree, Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis | Tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts |
| pignut, pignut hickory, brown hickory, black hickory, Carya glabra | An American hickory tree having bitter nuts |
| shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory, Carya ovata | North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts |
| water hickory, bitter pecan, water bitternut, Carya aquatica | hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | carya, genus carya |
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| Catalan | carya, genus carya |
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