Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Either of two hickories of eastern North America, so named from the loose, flat, strap-like scales of the bark on old trees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A species of hickory (
Carya alba ) whose outer bark is loose and peeling; a shagbark; also, its nut.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A species of
hickory (Carya alba) whose outerbark is loose and peeling; ashagbark . - noun The
nut of this tree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts
Etymologies
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Examples
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"scalybark" to the Carolina hickory, the name "shagbark" to Carya ovata, and the name shellbark to Carya laciniosa.
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The shellbark is a tree the best varieties of which it is difficult to learn about.
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The names "shellbark," "shagbark" and "scalybark" are at present used interchangeably by authors for different species of the hickory.
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(Carya ovata), L for shellbark (Carya laciniosa), and B for bitternut
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The following standards for pecans have been established (including the pecan x shellbark hybrids which generally resemble pecans in flavor and appearance and would be classed with them).
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The Mott shellbark hickory which weighs 29. 6g which was discovered by Dr. Morris before the founding of the Association is still the largest hickory of which we know.
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I have never tested a Persian walnut where the cracking pressure runs much over 40kg and it is rather unusual for a Japan walnut to run much over 200kg, yet Cording is 419kg, a strength of shell greater than that of any other nut sent into the contest this year and which is only found among black walnuts and shellbark hickories.
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In character of growth, the shellbark is much like the shagbark but the nuts are much larger, and the shells extremely thick.
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Seven of these belong to the scale bud class, _Eucarya_, the shagbark, _Carya ovata_, the shellbark, _Carya laciniosa_, the scaly bark, _Carya
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For their rich, delicious nuts, alone, saying nothing about their clean, handsome foliage, their rough, strong wood -- the best of any grown for many purposes -- the hickories, among which are the Shagbark (_Carya ovata_) and the big shellbark (_Carya laciniosa_), should be planted in many places.
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