'Carya alba' definitions:
Definition of 'Carya alba'
From: GCIDE
- Shellbark \Shell"bark`\, n. (Bot.) A species of hickory (Carya alba) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Carya alba'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Carya alba'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Hickory shad. (Zool.) (a) The mattowacca, or fall herring. (b) The gizzard shad. [1913 Webster]