hickory tree vs bitternut hickory

bitternut hickory vs hickory tree

hickory tree and bitternut hickory both are nouns.

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

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

hickory tree: 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 tree 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 tree (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

Difference between hickory tree and bitternut hickory

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