hickory vs nutmeg hickory

nutmeg hickory vs hickory

hickory and nutmeg hickory both are nouns.

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

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

hickory: American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
nutmeg hickory: hickory of southern United States and Mexico having hard nutmeg-shaped 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, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory, big shagbark, big shellbark, big shellbark hickory, Carya laciniosa, king nut, king nut hickory, Carya myristicaeformis, Carya myristiciformis, Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory, big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory.

hickory (noun)	nutmeg hickory (noun)
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts	hickory of southern United States and Mexico having hard nutmeg-shaped nuts
valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees

Difference between hickory and nutmeg hickory

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