hickory vs black hickory

black hickory vs hickory

hickory and black hickory both are nouns.

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

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

hickory: American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
black hickory: an American hickory tree having bitter nuts

Other hyponyms of hickory include bitter pecan, Carya aquatica, water bitternut, water hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut, pignut hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, 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, Carya tomentosa, mockernut, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory.

hickory (noun)	black hickory (noun)
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts	an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees	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

Difference between hickory and black hickory

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