brown hickory vs black hickory

brown hickory and black hickory both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brown hickory	Yes	No	No	No
black hickory	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, brown hickory and black hickory are synonyms defined as:

brown hickory and black hickory: an American hickory tree having bitter nuts

Other synonyms of brown hickory include Carya glabra, pignut, pignut hickory.

brown hickory (noun)	black hickory (noun)
an American hickory tree having bitter nuts	an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
	smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
	North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut