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Big shellbark

noun
1.
Hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut.  Synonyms: big shagbark, big shellbark hickory, Carya laciniosa, king nut, king nut hickory.






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"Big shellbark" Quotes from Famous Books



... little and the big shagbark,—if we call the little one shagbark and the big one shellbark, it makes a distinction; and the reason why that distinction seems legitimate is that the bark comes off like great sheets from the big shellbark, and the little shagbark has the scales of the bark coming off in smaller scales, shelling off. At the same time, it is more scaly than the other. If we call the shaggy one, Hicoria ovata, shagbark, and call the big western ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting - Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911 • Northern Nut Growers Association



Words linked to "Big shellbark" :   hickory, genus Carya, Carya, hickory nut, hickory tree



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