Shellbark

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See shagbark.
  • n. An eastern North American hickory (Carya laciniosa) having shaggy bark, pinnately compound leaves, and large, compressed, globose, reddish or yellow nuts.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark.
  • n. The nut of this tree.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Either of two hickories of eastern North America, so named from the loose, flat, strap-like scales of the bark on old trees.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hickory    hickory tree   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shagbark   
    Same Context
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    mockernut    straight-grained    burlbright    madrone    pre-cooked   
     
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