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Definition of Shagbark hickory
1. Noun. North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts.
Terms within: Hickory Nut
Group relationships: Carya, Genus Carya
Generic synonyms: Hickory, Hickory Tree
Definition of Shagbark hickory
1. Noun. A common hickory found in the eastern USA and in southern Canada, scientific name ''Carya ovata'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shagbark Hickory
Literary usage of Shagbark hickory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"The Southern shellbark or shagbark hickory is also abundant in these coves, and
large quantities of this timber are annually shipped to the manufacturing ..."
2. The Story of the Forest by John Gordon Dorrance (1916)
"The shagbark hickory THE hickory, like the beech and chestnut, is best known for
its nuts. But though, like the beech and chestnut, it is a nut-bearing tree ..."
3. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"shagbark hickory (Vt., NH, Mass., R. L, Conn., NY, NJ, Pa., Del., SC,
Ala., Miss., Tex., Ark., Mo., 111., Wis., Mich., Minn., Kaus., Neb., Iowa); ..."
4. Forestry in Minnesota by Samuel Bowdlear Green, Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (1902)
"The same as for shagbark hickory. Properties of Wood. ... The wood is inferior
to that of the shagbark hickory, but is used for about the same purposes. ..."
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