hickory vs bitternut hickory

bitternut hickory vs hickory

hickory and bitternut hickory both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hickory	Yes	No	No	No
bitternut hickory	Yes	No	No	No

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

hickory: American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
bitternut hickory: 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, bitter pignut, bitternut, 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)	bitternut hickory (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 bitternut hickory

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