Part of speech: Noun
hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
Categories: Hickory, Hickory tree
Bitter hickory, Bitter pignut, Carya cordiformis, Bitternut, Swamp hickory
bitter – A related word in the same word family.
nut – A related word in the same word family.
Some words entered English through trade goods—we borrowed both the product and its foreign name.