white-heart hickory
- noun
- /ˈwaɪtˌhɑrt ˈhɪkəri/
- US
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nogal blanco
- We found several white-heart hickory trees along the forest trail, their smooth bark easily identifiable.
Examples
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Each autumn, the white-heart hickory produces hard-shelled nuts that attract wildlife.
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The dense wood of the white-heart hickory is prized for tool handles and sporting goods.
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The white-heart hickory is known for its strong wood.
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Many people enjoy the nuts from the white-heart hickory.
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Each autumn, the white-heart hickory produces hard-shelled nuts that attract wildlife.
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The dense wood of the white-heart hickory is prized for making durable tool handles.
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We found several white-heart hickory trees along the forest trail, their smooth bark distinguishable.
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 North American tree with smooth bark and hard edible nuts
Surface Forms
Morphology
white-heart + hickory
The form is a descriptive compound (feature + tree name): a B1 learner who knows 'white', 'heart' and 'hickory' will infer this denotes a particular kind of hickory characterized by a 'white heart' in the wood. The exact botanical details are not deducible, but the basic meaning 'a type of hickory tree with a white-hearted characteristic' is transparently derived from the constituents.
Etymology
The name white-heart hickory comes from the pale center of the tree's wood. The part white-heart points to this light 'inner wood', and hickory is the tree type, so the name means a hickory with a pale center.
