hickory vs water hickory

water hickory vs hickory

hickory and water hickory both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of hickory include bitter pecan, Carya aquatica, water bitternut, 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 hickory (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 hickory

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