hickory vs big shellbark

big shellbark vs hickory

hickory and big shellbark both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hickory	Yes	No	No	No
big shellbark	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, big shellbark is a hyponym of hickory; that is, big shellbark is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hickory:

hickory: American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
big shellbark: hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut

Other hyponyms of hickory include bitter pecan, Carya aquatica, water bitternut, water hickory, black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut, pignut hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory, big shagbark, big shellbark hickory, Carya laciniosa, king nut, king nut hickory, Carya myristicaeformis, Carya myristiciformis, nutmeg hickory, Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory, big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory.

hickory (noun)	big shellbark (noun)
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts	hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut
valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees

Difference between hickory and big shellbark

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