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Carya
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Noun1.Carya - genus of large deciduous nut-bearing treesCarya - genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China
dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
family Juglandaceae, Juglandaceae, walnut family - trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans
hickory tree, hickory - American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts
bitter pecan, Carya aquatica, water bitternut, water hickory - hickory of southern United States having many narrow leaflets and rather bitter nuts
brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut, pignut hickory, black hickory - an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory - hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts
Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree, pecan - tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
big shagbark, big shellbark, big shellbark hickory, Carya laciniosa, king nut, king nut hickory - hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut
Carya myristicaeformis, Carya myristiciformis, nutmeg hickory - hickory of southern United States and Mexico having hard nutmeg-shaped nuts
Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory - North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts
big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory - smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut


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Pecan is one of many commercially important Carya species native to the United States.
Hickory sold as Lumber and veneer--the so-called true hickories--comes from a variety of Carya species, usually Carya ovata, Carya glabra, Carya tomentosa, and Carya laciniosa.
A visual survey of the overstory confirms the present dominance of Quercus and Carya species and the growing dominance of Acer saccharum.
 
 
 
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