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Definition of Black hickory

1. Noun. Smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut.

2. Noun. An American hickory tree having bitter nuts.

3. Noun. North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Hickory

black grouses black guillemot black guillemots black gum black gums black hairstreak black hairstreaks black hat black hats black haw

black heel black hellebore black hellebores black hemlock black henbane black hickory (current term) black hole black holes black horehound black huckleberry

black humor black humour black ice black information black jack black kite black knapweed black knight black knights black knot

Literary usage of Black hickory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Mining Magazine (1857)
"all the trees above named; while other portions of the high land have a medium growth of post, white, black, and Spanish oak, black hickory, yellow pine, ..."

2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"Mockernut hickory is termed in places black hickory, bull and black nut, big bud, and white-heart hickory. This is a medium- to large-sized tree, ..."

3. Trade Foundations Based on Producing Industries (1919)
"... alba) (black hickory, bull and black nut, big bud, and white-heart hickory): A medium to large sized tree, with the same range as the foregoing; common, ..."

4. Biennial Report by Missouri Board of Immigration (1867)
"Black-jack land» are the poorest of all. They occupy poor, rocky, or sandy ridges and hills, and sustain a stunted growth of black-jacks, black hickory, ..."

5. History of Hampshire County, West Virginia by Hu Maxwell, Howard Llewellyn Swisher (1897)
"BROWN HICKORY, carya porcina, is sometimes confounded with black hickory. It is also called pig nut and ... It is a little heavier than black hickory. ..."

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