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Definition of Mockernut hickory
1. Noun. Smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut.
Group relationships: Carya, Genus Carya
Generic synonyms: Hickory, Hickory Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mockernut Hickory
Literary usage of Mockernut hickory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison (1914)
"The color of its bud is a characteristic orange yellow. The bark is of a lighter
shade than the bark of the mockernut hickory FIG. 69. ..."
2. The Sylva Americana: Or, A Description of the Forest Trees Indigenous to the by Daniel Jay Browne (1832)
"In the parts of New Jersey which lie on the river Hudson, this species is known
by the name of mockernut hickory, in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, ..."
3. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1906)
"Pignut hickory (Juglans porcina)—In the Atlantic parts of the middle states it
helps with the mockernut hickory, white oak, swamp white oak, sweet gum and ..."
4. Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by M. Boya Edwards (2001)
"Sarg., and mockernut hickory, C. tomentosa (Poiret) Nutt, also occurred.
Reproduction Reproduction (all trees less than 3 meters tall) density estimates ..."
5. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"••Like most of the walnuts, the mockernut hickory flourishes in rich soils, and
chiefly on the gentle acclivities which surround the swamps, where it grows, ..."
6. Our Trees, how to Know Them by Clarence Moores Weed (1918)
"THE MOCKERNUT OR BIG BUD HICKORY IN summer the easiest way to determine the
mockernut hickory is to see that the petioles of the leaves are pubescent and ..."
7. 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, ..."