big-bud hickory
- noun
- Specialized
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nogal de big-bud
- The forest was home to several big-bud hickory trees, valued for their tough wood and edible nuts.
Examples
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She collected nuts from the big-bud hickory as part of her autumn harvest.
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Botanists identified the species as big-bud hickory by its distinctive smooth bark and clustered leaflets.
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The big-bud hickory tree provides shade in summer.
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Many birds nest in the branches of the big-bud hickory.
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Botanists identified the species as big-bud hickory by its distinctive smooth bark and clustered leaflets.
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She collected nuts from the big-bud hickory as part of her autumn harvest.
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The forest was home to several big-bud hickory trees, valued for their tough wood and edible nuts.
Synonyms
A North American hickory tree with hard wood and hard-shelled edible nuts
A North American tree with smooth bark, leaves that have seven to nine leaflets, and hard nuts you can eat
A North American tree that makes hard nuts people can eat
A tree from North America with smooth bark and hard edible nuts
Surface Forms
Morphology
big-bud + hickory
The compound is compositional: 'big-bud' is formed from 'big' + 'bud' modifying 'hickory', and 'hickory' clearly denotes the tree. This modifier+noun pattern is a common, predictable naming pattern in English (and cross-linguistically), so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer it refers to a hickory with large buds.
Etymology
Big-bud hickory The noun big-bud hickory comes from the tree's very large buds on its branches. The name joins big-bud, meaning the large buds, and hickory, meaning a 'nut tree', so the picture helps people recognize this hickory and its edible nuts.
