Hickory
The hickory tree produces small nuts that are edible.
tree of the genus Carya from the ancient Greek meaning Nut commonly called Hickory. This name derives from the Powhatan of Virginia
An American tree of the genus Carya, of which there are several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown hickory, is the C. glabra. The swamp hickory is C. amara, having a nut whose shell is very thin and the kernel bitter.
hickory
No its a fruit. Most people would say that it is a nut or a tree.
A hickory nut is round to ovate in shape with a hard outer shell that is light to dark brown in color. The nut is typically smaller than a walnut and has a distinct ridged texture on its surface. When cracked open, hickory nuts reveal a sweet-flavored kernel inside.
Yes, the noun 'hickory' is a noun, a word for a type of tree or the wood derived from it; a word for a thing.
how is hickory nut dispersed
Possibly they come from two different types of hickory tree. Pignut hickory and pecan hickory are two different hicories with different nuts altogether. While pignuts are hard shelled and rather small in size, pecans are thin shelled and somewhat large in size.If they came from the same tree the smaller nut just may not have matured correctly.
A bitternut is another term for the bitternut hickory, Latin name Carya cordiformis, a common hickory tree native to the eastern United States and Southeast Canada, or its fruit, a bitter nut used as feed for livestock.
Brazil nut is the name of a South American tree and also the name of the tree's edible seed. The Brazil nut tree is native to Guianas, Venezuela, Brazil and Eastern Peru.