hickory vs water bitternut

water bitternut vs hickory

hickory and water bitternut both are nouns.

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

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

hickory: American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
water bitternut: hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts

Other hyponyms of hickory include bitter pecan, Carya aquatica, 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, 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)	water bitternut (noun)
American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts	hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts
valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees

Difference between hickory and water bitternut

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