bitter hickory

Noun bitter hickory has 1 sense

• bitter hickory(n = noun.plant) 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;
is a member of carya, genus carya
is a kind of hickory, hickory tree