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North American hickory having loose gray shaggy bark and edible nuts
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shellbark
Word definitions for shellbark in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A species of hickory ((taxlink Carya laciniosa species noshow=1)) whose outer bark is loose and peeling. 2 The nut of this tree.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. North American hickory having loose gray shaggy bark and edible nuts [syn: shagbark , shagbark hickory , shellbark hickory , Carya ovata ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shagbark \Shag"bark`\, n. (Bot.) A rough-barked species of hickory ( Carya alba ), its nut. Called also shellbark . See Hickory . (b) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium , a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod.
Usage examples of shellbark.
It is called the mockernut because while the nut is large, usually larger than the shellbark, the kernel is very small and difficult to take out of the thick shell.