The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shagbark \Shag"bark`\, n. (Bot.)
A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut.
Called also shellbark. See Hickory.
(b) The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous
tree with a red coiled-up pod.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shellbark \Shell"bark`\, n. (Bot.)
A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose
and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Hickory \Hick"o*ry\, n. [North American Indian pawcohiccora
(Capt. J. Smith) a kind of milk or oily liquor pressed from
pounded hickory nuts. "Pohickory" is named in a list of
Virginia trees, in 1653, and this was finally shortened to
"hickory." --J. H. Trumbull.] (Bot.)
An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are
several species. The shagbark is the Carya alba, and has a
very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets.
The pignut, or brown hickory, is the Carya glabra. The
swamp hickory is Carya amara, having a nut whose shell is
very thin and the kernel bitter.
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Hickory shad. (Zool.)
(a) The mattowacca, or fall herring.
(b) The gizzard shad.
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