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Shellbark

noun
1.
North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts.  Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory.



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"Shellbark" Quotes from Famous Books



... extent of time and funds available and a special effort was made to top-work some of the worthless pignuts and bitternuts with scions of hicans and hybrid hickories. In a former report, reference was made to the difficulty in grafting shagbark and shellbark scions onto pignuts; and here again I want to say my first observation still holds especially with the shagbarks. I do not have a single shagbark scion left on pignuts out of several hundred set during ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association
... condition, the sight of the hides was enough to set him to work. The first thing that engaged his attention was the making of a set of lasts, and then the ramie fiber was twisted for threads; after which he sought out the lumber pile to make pegs, and selected some of the dried shellbark hickory for this purpose. Thus he imposed one very needed ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen • Roger Finlay


Words linked to "Shellbark" :   hickory, hickory nut, genus Carya, Carya, hickory tree


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