hickory vs bitter pignut

bitter pignut vs hickory

hickory and bitter pignut both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hickory	Yes	No	No	No
bitter pignut	Yes	No	No	No

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

hickory: American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
bitter pignut: hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts

Other hyponyms of hickory include bitter pecan, Carya aquatica, water bitternut, water hickory, black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut, pignut hickory, bitter hickory, bitternut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory, big shagbark, big shellbark, 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)	bitter pignut (noun)
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts	hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees

Difference between hickory and bitter pignut

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